Beware the mad scientist…

Beware of the mad scientist…A techie (or company) who peddles the hopes of saving a business a lot of money by offering a solution with either inferior hardware and/or recommending an open source software solution.  By inferior hardware, I mean using hardware that does not suit a company’s needs.  In theory, a company with 50 users could use a PC with a 1GHz processor and 512MG of RAM, as a Peer-to-Peer central file server, but this really would not be an adequate solution.   The mantra that you should always be repeating when faced with the decision of implementing a new IT solution is “you get what you pay for”.  How often does that simple phrase come back to haunt the unfortunate company that decides not to heed its simple warning?  You will always, and I mean always, pay more in the long run for these home grown solutions.  Whether it be during the installation, where a techie will be paid hourly to work out all of the bugs and tweak their solution for your specific environment, or for the long term woes that come from the lack of support with the eventual home-grown solution.  This will also include the loss of money which often results from the lack of user productivity, not to mention the complaints and hit in employee confidence you will soon encounter by taking the low road.

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