Came back from a 3 day business trip to our new headquarters. 3 collection notices in my mailbox. No one is paying the bills at Megacorp, or, at least it appears that way. When working for SmallCorp, our bills were always paid. Now, I get about 2 or 3 collection notices a week. Our T1 lines are not being paid, our EDI mailbox's are not being paid, our local phone server was 1 within 1 day of them turning it off before I was able to get an emergency check overnighted to our local telco.
BIG security issues!! Some Microsoft security problem with RPC and DCOM has the datacenter scrambling to patch the zillion win2k servers they got and figure out how to patch the clients.
I attended another Audit meeting at the business headquarters. During that time I found out an interesting fact. Every time the datacenter loads a patch fpr an HP-UX or Oracle system, that system usually goes down once the patch is in place. I often wondered why, since the datacenter standard is to have 2 machines for each application. One for production and another for testing. Their policy is to NOT develop or try things out on a production system. Makes sense. When they moved our oracle application to their datacetner, they charged us for 2 systems. As it turns out, they DO NOT test these patches on a test system. They just load them onto a production machine and hope for the best. This explains why about 50% of all the patches they load on usually cause an extended downtime.