This holding company owns a handful of subsidiaries that all run independently — which keeps things interesting for an IT pilot fish who works there.In IT, we are often told to just make it work when one company buys its own software,& fish says.
&Websites are one thing that we have managed to unify, except for one company that insists on using its own provider and managing themselves.Email for all the companies is also on fish servers, and that works without a hitch — at least until the day fish gets a frantic call from the subsidiary with its own website.
The problem: No outside emails are arriving.After fish sits through the standard chewing-out about how the business can''t function without email, he starts testing.
Sure enough, no outside email is reaching the subsidiary.
It isn''t even reaching the mail servers.