Fair enough, but let's forget about users in this regard. In my experience, the business environment has become unnecessarily restrictive regarding risk, so that even supposed "sandbox" systems may have significant limits on what an individual can do. When this is coupled with there being zero benefit to taking on such a risk, it becomes easier to see why individuals shy away from it.
What's the point in trying to learn something when the only time you get attention is when you make a mistake. So while it was certainly true that there were PLMs and training more readily available in the past, it is equally true that many techies learned because of mistakes and errors, whereas today there is little praise and much blame for those taking on those tasks. Adam >Good question. For professional training (which costs $$$$$$), it is likely >the business environment. But I've also had users refuse to take free, >internal, courses because they: (1) don't have the time; (2) already know >all that stuff; and (3) don't want to bother because software should be >"intuitive" (i.e. should do what I want/need, not what I tell it to). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
