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Gripe -- you may skip.
Aug. 11th, 2012 04:03 pmSaying "I'm not going to tell you I told you so" *is*. And worse is when you didn't, but you're taking credit for it now. And worse is when faced with the same constraints, you are unable to come up with a better plan.
Yes, in an ideal world with no constraints on resources... we would have no constraints on resources. So you could allocate two machines per trivial function, and blithely ignore factors such as space availability, power availability, initial cost, maintenance cost, and administrative cost.
In the real world, only essential functions get allocated redundant machines. And if a non-essential function becomes essential, somebody (who can't live without it) needs to notice that and provide a budget for handling that new problem. Otherwise it will continue to be treated as non-essential.
Yes, in an ideal world with no constraints on resources... we would have no constraints on resources. So you could allocate two machines per trivial function, and blithely ignore factors such as space availability, power availability, initial cost, maintenance cost, and administrative cost.
In the real world, only essential functions get allocated redundant machines. And if a non-essential function becomes essential, somebody (who can't live without it) needs to notice that and provide a budget for handling that new problem. Otherwise it will continue to be treated as non-essential.
