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Readers hand down more IT Commandments
Last month, ZDNet bloggers delivered 15 IT Commandments that technology executives couldn't afford to ignore. Readers were quick to propose a few additional IT rules -- rules which may or may not be worth carving into stone.
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Last month, ZDNet bloggers delivered 15 IT Commandments that technology executives couldn't afford to ignore. Readers were quick to propose a few additional IT rules -- rules which may or may not be worth carving into stone. Here, in no particular order, are ZDNet readers' IT Commandments...
- Thou shalt not Gerrymander or Balkanize
- Thou shalt collaborate
- Thou shalt not make changes on Friday
- Thou shalt not buy equipment based upon price alone
- Thou shalt not write down thine passwords
- Thou shalt not allow users to click on links in email messages
- Thou shalt not entrust critical systems to only one or two employees
- Thy shalt test thy backups
- Thou shalt not assume to know everything
- Thou shalt not ignore software updates
- Thou shalt turn off your HTTP
- Thou shalt wait before following the latest IT fad