RE: Cross-Platform Log Analysis and Microsoft

Uhh.....

You *are* aware that Microsoft and Novell now have a joint lab that is specifically designed to work on interoperability between Linux and Windows, right?  

http://port25.technet.com/archive/2007/01/30/seeking-a-few-good-people-we-re-hiring-and-so-is-novell.aspx




>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2007 at  9:34 PM, in message
<74735BF202608043B11025A9FAA9438906CFE98A@WIN-MSG-21.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.mi
rosoft.com>, Eric Fitzgerald <[email protected]> wrote: 

> Regarding management strategy, it's not exactly my idea of fun going
> into a meeting with my VP and trying to explain to them why they should
> spend dev resources on a feature whose sole purpose is to enable their
> Microsoft product to be managed by *nix systems.  They tend to ask
> questions that make me uncomfortable, and that I don't have good answers
> to (surprisingly enough, *nix datacenter shops do *not* account for most
> of our revenue).  My managers tend not to give me promotions and big
> bonuses when I have meetings like that.  Oddly enough I don't recall
> ever hearing a "go ahead" answer out of a meeting like that either...