"Geeks rule!" Yes - but what that means depends
An odd experience this week: I wanted to get a bunch of people collecting roughly similar data (on donors) to produce samples for me that were both randomly selected and geospatially representative. Since that’s oxymoronic, what I actually asked them to do was to stratify by district and then select randomly within each stratum.
The striking thing about the exercise was that an easy majority have moved the database for this to MySQL on Linux with holdouts on Solaris (mostly also MySQL), HP-UX, and various Microsoft configurations - but the unexpected thing was that none of the Unix people had any difficulty either understanding it or doing it; while the Wintel people equally unanimously wanted meetings, paperwork, “a better understanding of the requirements”, and in something like three out of four cases additional monies from their bosses before they could see about getting it done.
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