Monday, May 16, 2005

Machines more reliable than engineers?

In a big IT project, most team members have shadow people. ie. these are the people who work in the project and are a replacement for the main engineers in emergency case. The emergency could be when someone falls ill, or gives a nasty surprise like leaving a job without enough notice period.
But I have not sen many people work on two computers simultaneously. ie One of the computer acting as a backup in case the main machine goes down, has irreversible memory damage, or just bursts in flames by chance. The issue is why not have backups machines for all machines in a company.
Does the IT management think Machines are more reliable than humans? Has the age of machines finally dawned on us? Or it is the well known apathy of managers towards engineers?

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