[merb]

wow. in which world do you live? since puppet, its really easy to update fleets of machines. and the tools even emerged. new software could be upgraded easily, as long you have a valid license or if it is handled by a "free" license.

[alttab]

In 3 years Microsoft will deliver MS Virtual Deployment Technology that uses powershell and ftp under the hood, but the integration with Visual Studio will be swooned for by millions. I'm speculating of course, but it feels like familiar territory. It always sounds like stockholm syndrome...

[sudioStudio64]

not everyone is in a place where they can use puppet or a similar orchestration system. Lot's of places are actually really scared of automation because they did it in the past and someone left without documenting something that caused some mayhem. I know, things like that can be avoided. And yes, all of the places that are gaining the benefits of scale are using lot's of automation...not everywhere is like that.

Things are better than they used to be, yes. But in lots of big businesses you wouldn't believe how slow processes are for all kinds of very valid sounding reasons. Don't get me wrong...its something that I'm personally working on changing everywhere that I can. I think everyone should be able to code, system admins should ALL be able to code in at least one language.