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pechter@ascii.(none) (William Pechter) writes:
> Sounds like IBM Global Services when I joined them for a short time in
> the 90s...
>
> Geniuses out of Boulder Colorado came in and did the proposals and setup
> on the sysadmin/backup (tsm) etc... then left the untrained kids from 
> community college in Boulder to support the outside sysadmins hired with 
> no turnover or docs to run the live stuff and be on call 24x7.

trivia: late 70s I did CMSBACK for internal datacenters ... some old
email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback

it went through several internal releases and then distributed (PC &
workstation) client support was added ... and released (from San
Jose/Almaden Research) to customers as workstation datasave (WDSF). It was then
picked up by the disk division ... when IBM was being re-orged into the
13 "baby blues" (in preperation for breaking up the company) ... and the
disk division had been rebranded ADSTAR and WDSF was rebranded ADSM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager#History

while new CEO reversed the overall breakup ... the disk division was
eventually still unloaded ... and ADSM was transferred to Tivoli part of
IBM and rebranded TSM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Tivoli_Storage_Manager#Product_details

posts mentioning backup/archive
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup

note beltway bandits made fine science of better monetizing true domain
experts by teaching project formula classes to bunch of new graduates who
are the face of the workforce on projects ... with the true domain
expert showing up rarely or never.

saw huge upswing last decade with big uptic in outsourcing to beltway
bandits and government contractors. part was their limitations on
lobbying congress ... private-equity buying up some of the entities and
apparently no lobbying restriction on private equity owners (possibly
contributing was contacts with former employee, now president)

Barbarians at the Capitol: Private Equity, Public Enemy
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/barbarians-capitol-private-equity-public-enemy/

Lou Gerstner, former ceo of ibm, now heads the Carlyle Group, a
Washington-based global private equity firm whose 2006 revenues of $87
billion were just a few billion below ibm's. Carlyle has boasted George
H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and former Secretary of State James Baker III
on its employee roster.

... snip ...

including buying the beltway bandit that will employ snowden

the next innovation was the rapidly spreading "success of failure"
culture, a sequence of failures more profit than immediate success
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

so large number of low-skilled means lots more gov. contracts, lower
salary costs as well as excuse for failures.

intelligence, 70% of the budget and over half the people (including
private-equity owned company that employed Snowden)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us

former AMEX president posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
success of failure posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure

note also father of the president, previously former director of CIA,
vice-president, and then (also) president, in the 80s (while VP)
repeatedly claimed no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260

last decade, another family member presides over the economic mess, 70
times larger than the S&L crisis, proportionally there should have been
70,000 criminal convictions (with jailtimes), so far nobody has even
been charged.

s&l crisis posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
economic mess posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess

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