“A user in a non-technical role ended up in hospital thanks to the strain of all those late nights”

Some technical decisions have very non-technical consequences – and are often based on little more than opinion

STEVE CASSIDY

I’m going to have to dance on eggshells a bit here: on the one hand this is a forehead-slapper of a support story, while on the other it contains a little nugget that conclusively identifies almost everyone involved, which is something I try to avoid, not least so that my source of such stories doesn’t dry up altogether. So let me see whether I can get my point across technically, and perhaps make you forget about the little nugget. One of my former clients had what I thought at the time was a very peculiar attitude to virtualisation. We’re talking about the pre-cloud epoch here, so this peculiarity could have been excused, except that it’s so symptomatic of a state of mind that I continue to come across – and a…

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