acquisition update

[rone]

Adobe's systems infrastructure is a mess.  There's compartmentalization up the ass and they're running production applications on Sun Enterprise 450s (laypeople: imagine a minibar refrigerator on wheels full of hard drives, powered by a Pentium II).  The only trick will be to wear down their higher-level IT people and let them see the light, namely, We Do Things The Right Way And You Don't, So Give Us The Keys And Let Us Fucking Drive Already.  They run Oracle Calendar, and the gits actually want us to transition to it right away, only to transition back to Exchange Calendar once we're fully integrated.  We must be firm, because we're so far ahead of them in almost every aspect, it's not even funny.

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being slightly contrary...

Oracle calendar is the-product-formerly-known-as Steltor CorporateTime Server. I ran it back at the doomed startup of, um, doom (http://www.messageone.com/), and it's was a pretty sweet damn package. Substantially less flaky than Exchange 5.5 or 2000. (Okay, okay... narrower than the sky... shallower than the ocean... etc. Still.)

Of course, Oracle has now had 3-4 years in which to turn the product into crap and/or actually make it more expensive than Exchange.

Still, I'd recommend keeping an open mind about it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, i wouldn't mind keeping it open as an option. I merely object to the enforced double migration.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Oh, heh, true. That is dumb.