well then!

[waider]

So, the project that I spent my first year at Doolin working on, and which has been on hiatus for a few months - migrating large chunks of a Windows network to Samba on Linux - is officially dead. The company in question is migrating everything to either 2K or 2K3 by the end of February. Not out of lack of performance or stability from the Linux end, either, but simply because (a) the company has no in-house Linux people other than the guy we've put there on long-term loan, and (b) a new director insists that Windows is the Way Of The Future.

I'm glad to see the end of the project, but sad that it happened this way.

Comments

[bitpuddle.livejournal.com]

It sucks to see a great deal of effort discarded for seemingly capricious reasons.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Well, kinda. I got more out of that project than either my employer or the company in question did - a hardcore education in Windows networking, plenty kudos for my debugging efforts, an evening talking about my work to a bunch of interested geeks, and even a few patches put back into the Samba source. So I'm not too bothered.

[bitpuddle.livejournal.com]

Those are mitigating factors, for sure.