“Shareholders are estatic.” proclaimed Idell Luettgen, product manager over licensing while speaking on a monthly directors call. “Well, the new licensing model is proving to be a little bit of a heavy lift for us here in TAC.” snapped Franz Nyström, director of North American TAC. “The customers are struggling to understand why certain things that were once included as an entitlement are now a licensed option, especially after a forced “security patch” version of the firmware....
“This is absolute but anarchy!” moaned IT generalist and policy aficionado Cody Sadleir of IT consulting firm “SavanIT”. “They’re literally wasting bits on the wire with this affront to proper etiquette, norms, and most importantly POLICY. We just don’t do it this way, if folks really can’t use the simply elegance of procmail that I have talked about at length at several happy hour events, I just don’t think they should be in IT....
Fledgling startup Positive Inverse is emerging from stealth mode with their new on-demand service specializing in providing uninventive and overly cautious enterprises with a suite of tools for denying anything from innovative ideas to standard changes required for moderinization. “We think there is a real market here.” Roger Snozcumber, founder and Chief Negating Office proudly proclaimed. “Look, there are a myriad of monolithic businesses out there that are absolutely terrified of any change whatsoever but may be too busy, aloof, or just plain embarassed to admit that they are too afraid of progress....
“I just don’t get it” veteran network engineer and serial entrepreneur Burton Zayden declared. “I guess I can kinda understand why someone wouldn’t be interested in my last business endeavor, but this one, people should really be thinking about it. It’s pretty mesmerizing.” Mr. Zayden continues, motioning to his pile of faux ethernet jacks crafted into ear rings and bolo ties - a failed business model which included a “major social media push” to popularize nonfunctional ethernet jacks as a fashion item....
Johnny N. Ginear has provided hosting and ISP services to the area for around a decade. He’s learned a lot about networking in that time. “I guess I was lucky. I picked a nearby data center to house my gear, and there were some regional providers there. Those providers have always gone out of their way to help. They showed me how to register for my own address space, taught me how to advertiese it to them via BGP, and helped me join the local Internet exchange!...