On May 7, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Will Hill wrote: > How is it that > the University, which should know better than anyone, is rocketing > into such > an ill planned and second rate IT solution? >
It is easy... Windows is the lowest common denominator when it comes to operating systems. Pretty much everyone that has sat down at a computer before has probably used windows and is at least familiar with it. Not very many people have set down at a Mac, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. Therefore there is a lot of politics involved. I can understand LSUs desire to standardize on the lowest common denominator, but I refuse to let them _require_ that *I* run windows as a condition of my enrollment as a student. The underlying evil of most bad decisions is politics. Whether it is in the government, education, the workplace, etc. it is always politics. The last job that I worked at had an operations manager that drove people nuts, and made our best employees quit (including me) because they could not deal with him. He was an awful person and cost the company hundreds of thousands in lost productivity and lost sales. But you know what? He is to this day the operations manager. Why? Not because it is the best thing to do to leave him there, not because he is profitable for the company, not because he is intelligent or a good manager... Because it is easier to bow to politics and the status quo. The pres. of the company has admitted this to myself and other current and past employees many times. The last time was about three weeks ago to a friend of mine that still works there. I quit in August of '99. The same thing goes for LSU. It is not the best decision, but may be the easiest. For the pencil pushers that often *is* the best decision. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
