The Road to 8.8.x

Planning to upgrade to 8.8.x eDir. The first MAJOR problem is that we have two legacy applications that have to run on NW5.1. Both servers are patched to 5.1 SP6 which is not on the list for 8.8.x. The person who supports both apps is notoriously unreliable. We need to get some ideas on how to do this. They want OES2-SLES wih 8.8.x and not NW65SP7 with 8.7.3.9. IF the apps can run on 5.1SP8 then we can go forward, but I'm willing to bet that the vendor is going to comeback with some "we only support 8.6.x edir... these servers were left behind for a reason, and with no one left around from the Novell team that built these these boxes it's like playing detective.

call me Sherlock

On Moving to New Digs

When i took this job I moved from a windowless basement office furnished with furniture trash picked from the same building to a fairly modern office building where all employees were housed in identical 10X10 offices with the exception of Desktop and the Call Desk. That was luxury I rarely encountered in my career. The building was built as a model technology center by the organization and the plan was accomplished by IBM about 20 years ago.

Time to upset the cart.

On a random friday, 2 months ago, we were told to prepare to move into the data center (yeah, noise, cold, etc) for an extended stay. Last week we moved into our new digs where our offices used to be, a cube farm. For many of the long timers this is the first time they haven't had an office and it shows. Loud phone conversations, rude comments, offensive music are just some of the problems. Random wanderings seem to be one of the most offensive things, people need to respect other people's right to privacy and space. This will all shake out eventually.