Part of the reason why all applications suck on Microsoft Windows at "enterprise" companies is the intrusive malware (I believe I can call it that). My i3-2100 desktop at home with a hard disk and 8 GB RAM feels just about as slow as my i5-8400 desktop at work with also a hard disk and 16 GB RAM.
I asked an IT guy at work why we have hard disks and he said we have some contract with HP that requires us to buy all hard disks and SSD through HP and they are expensive because enterprise support. Makes no sense to me.
but back to the topic, if you're an internal customer, can't you put pressure within the organization to improve the tools you use? If it is that slow, there must be some pretty low hanging fruits?
I was IBM’s “corporate webmaster” in the 1990s. Pretty much the only way I could get support to solve problems was for the web site to crash (and then it would be all hands and executives on deck, which was almost just as bad). e.g. we were mandated to use IBM’s rebadged CERN webserver (variously Lotus Go, Domino Go, Domino, etc) in 1995, but it couldn't handle the load and didn't have any of the fixes/enhancements I’d added to our build of NCSA. We finally cut over to it some time in early 1998. Two months later IBM killed it for an IBM build of Apache (which also didn't have any of the fixes or enhancements we'd made to NCSA and I was prohibited by corporate politics from adding them).
I couldn't use DB2 for www.ibm.com for years because of internal accounting rules requiring commercial licenses, while other accounting rules prohibited giving our group the budget for said licenses.
I'm sure everything is much better now that the cloud has descended.
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Part of the reason why all applications suck on Microsoft Windows at "enterprise" companies is the intrusive malware (I believe I can call it that). My i3-2100 desktop at home with a hard disk and 8 GB RAM feels just about as slow as my i5-8400 desktop at work with also a hard disk and 16 GB RAM.
I asked an IT guy at work why we have hard disks and he said we have some contract with HP that requires us to buy all hard disks and SSD through HP and they are expensive because enterprise support. Makes no sense to me.
but back to the topic, if you're an internal customer, can't you put pressure within the organization to improve the tools you use? If it is that slow, there must be some pretty low hanging fruits?
I was IBM’s “corporate webmaster” in the 1990s. Pretty much the only way I could get support to solve problems was for the web site to crash (and then it would be all hands and executives on deck, which was almost just as bad). e.g. we were mandated to use IBM’s rebadged CERN webserver (variously Lotus Go, Domino Go, Domino, etc) in 1995, but it couldn't handle the load and didn't have any of the fixes/enhancements I’d added to our build of NCSA. We finally cut over to it some time in early 1998. Two months later IBM killed it for an IBM build of Apache (which also didn't have any of the fixes or enhancements we'd made to NCSA and I was prohibited by corporate politics from adding them).
I couldn't use DB2 for www.ibm.com for years because of internal accounting rules requiring commercial licenses, while other accounting rules prohibited giving our group the budget for said licenses.
I'm sure everything is much better now that the cloud has descended.
Not everyone has the privileged to do this, but I would actually refuse to work at a place that doesn't have SSDs in developer machines. Holy crap.