On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:32 AM, LAR wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Nick Andrews wrote: >> >>> Change just for the sake of change is always bad. And for production >>> operations, it needs to be for a damned good reason to even consider >>> it at all... >> >> >> It was funny. I had a talk in front of the San Diego Apple Users Group >> (later morphed into the Mac Users Group) and those tech heads could not be >> convinced of this. They don't get the part that says, "First, we rip out >> millions of dollars of existing infrastructure," needs to be offset by >> "because this change will end up making us more money." Home computers were >> still "neep, neep" stuff by propeller heads, and business had only just >> begun to start looking to PCs in strategic locations to free up overhead >> from dedicated main frames. The first people to get PCs in business were >> secretaries and accounts, and the art departments got early Macs. >> >> Best, R.E.F. >> ---- >> www.crydee.com >> >> Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by >> stupidity. >> > > Oddly enough those people are now the LAST to get an upgraded > computer. I remember in 2000 I had a pharmaceutical client whose > secretary was still using a 486 (For those too young to remember, that > was 4 generations removed from the then current pentium - last issued > in 1989). > > Being in QA, my people still have that problem with developers - > convincing them that their NEAT idea of how to do something or added > functionality has NOTHING to do with the business purpose of the app > and does NOT need to be implemented. However, making sure the print > function works correctly DOES.
The problem here is that huge cash investments breed inertia. If you notice so many big stores/chain locations are using Point of Purchase equipment that was state of the art 10 years ago. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
