At 9:52 PM -0800 10/28/03, John Burke wrote:

>Alfredo wrote (somewhat curiously without comment):

The (kind) comment was in the subject line: "Incomplete interview?"


> > Excerpts from the interview:
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2003/0,4814,86597,00.html
>>
>
>I'd like to give Maj. Gen Dale Meyerrose the benefit of the doubt; i.e.
>blame the interviewer for the gobbledygook in the article. But I can't,
>because it sounds too much like CIO-speak for it to be the work of the
>interviewer. Let's see now, Unix doesn't have much of a future because it is
>too hard to learn and manage. OK, not the reasons I'd use to predict the
>demise of Unix, but it is certainly true that Unix is hard to learn and
>manage. He then goes on to maintain that somehow Linux is not as hard to
>learn and manage and therefore has a good future. Huh? He maintains he does
>not use Linux in his "command" and only has a couple of Unix-based systems.
>So what does he use, given that "open-system-type technologies as a family
>of technologies are the ones that are most helpful to us"?

So, the question still remains: If not Unix/Linux, then what?


>But the most amusing part was his being "this morning's opening speaker here
>at the Storage Networking World conference" but then admitting in the
>article that "I don't have a storage-area network."

A familiar tone (tune?) -- typical of keynote speeches?


>I think I'll start applying for CIO jobs.

Or keynote-speaker jobs?

;-)

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