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.

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[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Ask them if they're using the remote service processor (an embedded bonus compute in the E450's) and if they have their own IP addresses.

If they do, port 42 may be your friend.