Mr. X
1 year ago

Approximately 350 PC's to unpack and setup and install with dual boot Windows/Linux, 15-20 virtual machines on each - and about 300 software packages (which don't always like to play well together). 30 servers (storage, backup, directory services, license managers, web and DNS servers, etc.) and 15 Tbytes of data to migrate to new hardware (some of it running on new platforms). Oh and they're changing the entire IP address space so everything has to be re-assigned.  And still waiting for the air conditioner contractors to finish the ducting and plastering and vacate the rooms where this stuff needs to be done. The guys installing the internet cables have also fallen a bit behind. Oh yeah, drop dead date for having it all done is in uhm - two weeks.

...Gives new meaning to the term "drop dead date".
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zottel
1 year ago

Just like the typical behaviour of some of our customers: Let the project run for about one or two years, ponder different possibilities, then fall silent for half a year (not even answering questions from us), just to tell us then that they'll buy and they want to go productive in two weeks. Details were not yet spoken of, of course.

(We're doing very large print servers / document output management with input from SAP, Unix, Windows etc.)
Fabio Comuni
1 year ago

Hey! It's exactly what I'm working on now! We recorded a three-days congress in March, now (10 months after) they want all the talks online. In two days...
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