Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Alexander Else wrote:
> 
....snip...

> but wait, that's not right.  let's ignore the investment in expense, time
> and resources used to create these applications and start from scratch on a
> new platform that none of the existing users know how to use.  but that's
> ok cause we can throw some money into training them and the loss of
> productivity during this period isn't really that important.  i mean, the
> customers won't mind if we're a bit slow off the mark.  and so what if our
> IT people don't feel competant to admin production unix machines?  they can
> learn like anyone else.  it's not like something bad would ever happen, right?

Umm, is it just me late at night, or is this a bit oxymoronic?
Don't do anything new, because we have such an investment in the
existing system and someone might be inconvenience.

But, isn't this what the IT industry spends all it's time doing?
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater and starting all over again?



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