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Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap(personal) 1U colo?)

  • From: Pete Templin
  • Date: Mon Mar 15 11:06:23 2004 
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:


Pete Templin wrote:



I didn't suggest saying "I'm not gonna do it". I just suggested "You
hired me to deploy dynamic routing on your statically-routed network.
What prompted you to think that I could configure site-wide anti-virus
services such that no one ever reports a virus leak from our
enterprise, without training, time to test and develop such a critical
solution, or both?"


It turns out that they can hire people with all kinds of certifications
that say thye can do all of that for a lot less than what they are
paying a "specialist".




You're right again. But those generalists would earn a spot on the
"don't hire these top network engineers to maintain your fleet of
windows boxes" list projected on the screen, while the specialists
either wouldn't be doing work outside their scope or the PHB would
understand that it's not their specialty.



pt