A Plea to Software Vendors from Sysadmins - 10 Do's and Don'ts - ACM Queue

A friend of mine is a grease monkey: the kind of auto enthusiast who rebuilds engines for fun on a Saturday night. He explained to me that certain brands of automobiles were designed in ways to make the mechanic's job easier. Others, however, were designed as if the company had a pact with the aspirin industry to make sure there are plenty of mechanics with headaches. He said those car companies hate mechanics. I understood completely because, as a system administrator, I can tell when software vendors hate me. It shows in their products. via A Plea to Software Vendors from Sysadmins - 10 Do's and Don'ts - ACM Queue.