Yikes. I’ve seen that strat before dinosaur vendors are the worst. My only advice to focus on replacing bad vendors like that wherever and whenever you can, getting stuck actively building out an already legacy system sucks. Good luck!
Yikes. I’ve seen that strat before dinosaur vendors are the worst. My only advice to focus on replacing bad vendors like that wherever and whenever you can, getting stuck actively building out an already legacy system sucks. Good luck!
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unfortunately there aren’t many vendors in this space, especially since a few of the shittier options have committed to just buying out competitors and sitting on their products rather than doing anything requested with them.
The casinos are extremely tight with money, they bring in tons, they just aren’t interested in spending it on anything other than building new/more casinos and of course c suite bonuses like all corps. They’re whiney and cheap, not good clients.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
IT being a cost center is a rough position to be in tbh, I get it. For me, even when I can convince them that moving to upgrading to more modern scalable systems will be an investment that should see an increase in uptime and a decrease in the number of admins needed, it is still a fight to get them to actually INVEST in it and not just unfunded mandate a change in systems.
I don’t even want to think about what hundreds of Windows servers administration looks like. Like SCCM and Group Policy is more powerful than Linux admins give it credit for, but still at that scale what a nightmare. I hated it on the scale of tens of servers.