I'm fighting the same stuff where I'm at. Although, we aren't that big of a chain, only a 300 user system or so. Its an automotive aftermarket supplier.
They will spend a million to get "Information at their fingertips", but, they won't buy something like MITS or just wait on one of us to write the code... Boggles my mind... I think we're all going to have to learn to be diplomats, salesmen, motivational speakers, etc. Just being a technical person (admin or developer), isn't good enough any more. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Bill Haskett <wphask...@advantos.net>wrote: > Robert: > > Good luck. It's a shame management and IT can't seem to understand that > the ROI for such a change will never approach zero from the west, and the > only reason for such a change is to spend someone elses money to make an > individual, or group of individuals, look intelligent. :-( > > Reminds me of many of us who can't figure out the economics of pricing; > thus figure when the demand curve is shifted to the east, prices go down. > Lord, protect others from our ignorance! :-) > > Bill > > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* ropor...@ochsner.org > *To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > *Date:* 1/24/2012 8:18 AM > *Subject:* [U2] FYI - Another UV shop going away... > >> Just FYI, >> >> Yesterday, Ochsner Health System (8 hospital plus ~40 clinics covering >> from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA.) announced that the in-house >> maintained Laboratory Information System will be replaced with SoftLab from >> Soft Computer Corp (softcomputer.com). The in-house system was >> originally a Pr1me then PI-Open, then Ardent to IBM to Rocket UniVerse >> system. The source was licensed from LabForce some 20 years ago and >> maintained and further enhanced in-house with things like automated faxing, >> connections to PHP/Apache, MS-SQL& Sybase, some GUI (where it made sense), >> etc. >> >> >> Looks like I'll be moving into the Oracle on AIX world here shortly... >> >> Robert >> >> >> >> >> Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE, OCP-Java >> Lead Sr. Programmer / Analyst >> Laboratory Information Services >> Ochsner Health System >> >> >> This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential >> information, privileged material (including material protected by the >> solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public >> information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended >> recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, >> please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from >> your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this >> transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> > -- John Thompson _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
