Thomas NeuderthSurfing our intranet I was totally surprised to find one of our administrators – Thomas “thommy” Neuderth - writing about his first contact with automation. I am really happy that one of the best IT experts I had the pleasure of working with has found himself having “no fear of being automated away” and rather interprets automation as a good way to actually live the life of an “IT expert” instead of being an “IT nanny”.

The automation of a simple task like archiving logfiles obviously convinced a “real techie” that there is more than just a little upside to using an automation engine. Of course the implementation of automation actually forced quite a bit of rethinking the common ways of administration and “thommy” describes the skepticism the first contact and the actual adoption of change in a down to earth way. If you are interested, you may read the whole document here.