Certain Hollywood producers have considered a script for remaking the movie Sound of Music, but set in the
year 2008.
In this version, Maria is a Unix System Administrator who was sent (by her 'superior') from her
job in the convent-like basement of a large government building (no singing allowed) to administer the Windows-based
PCs of the von Trapp family, and falls in love with the widowed head of the family, Georg.
The secondary plot involves Georg, who as a young man was a highly successful program manager
for a large database project at the computer company Oracle. Georg left Oracle for a small company, which has recently
been purchased by his former employer in a corporate takeover. Georg refuses to use the Oracle business card or any of the
Oracle logos as they try unsuccessfully to get 'manager Von Trapp' to manage another Oracle database project. In
addition, Georg has fallen in love with an attractive Oracle DBA who encourages him to accept the program manager role at
Oracle while training him in the use of database indexes.
The spectacular finale, in which the von Trapp family (including Maria, who has recently married von Trapp)
installs sql Server on every PC in Oracle, hide behind a row of servers when hunted down by Oracle security representatives.
They then flee to join the open source community.
The producers decided to use the original musical score from the 1965 version, but decided to hire a cheap
song writer to change the lyrics, hoping that no one would notice.
In this scene, a thunderstorm (and brief power outages) wreck havoc with the von Trapp family network, and
Maria struggles to keep the von Trapp network up while the children arrive at her door, seeking comfort and assurances that
their World of Warcraft gaming sessions will continue uninterrupted.
My Favorite Things
Wir-e-less networks and mouse-wheels on mous-es, Bright du-al displays that need no de-gauss-es, Brown
shrink-wrapped packages in cling-wrap that clings, These are a few of my favorite things...
Cream colored Sony's that play Yankee-doodle, Quick-spells and Intel's with kit and kaboodle, Software
for baseball that lets you take swings, These are a few of my favorite things
Keys that you presses and passwords you guesses, An O-S that boots fast and won't often crashes, Networks
that stay up and test with a ping These are a few of my favorite things
When I work nights When the phone rings When there is no mouse pad, I simply remember my favorite
things And then I don't feel so bad
