A Plea to Software Vendors from Sysadmins - 10 Do's and Don'ts

What can software vendors do to make the lives of sysadmins a little easier?A friend of mine is a grease monkey: the kind of auto enthusiast who rebuilds engines for fun on a Saturday night. He explained to me that certain brands of automobiles were designed in ways to make the mechanic's job easier. Others, however, were designed as if the company had a pact with the aspirin industry to make