Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools

["David Foster" <bridgeport@nospam.australians.com>]

The only things to be gained by tossing out all apps/os and starting again
is lots of money for programmers/analysts and learning from the mistakes of
the past (Y2K for example)
David
----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Else <aelse@nospam.ozemail.com.au>
To: <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools


> At 22:37 01/02/2000 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> >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.
>
> Perhaps I didn't make myself clear.  I am by no means saying that we
> shouldn't do anything new.  What I am saying is that we shouldn't do
> something just because it is new.  There is an established base of
> companies that use VB programs, there is a need for people to support
them.
>  To remove this need yes you could recode everything under a different
> os/language/whatever.  Is this expense, inconvenience, stress all
> justified?  ie.  are you really going to gain anything by recoding the
same
> application from scratch?
>
>
> >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?
>
> It takes a lot of time and money to develop a product and something has to
> be going really badly for starting over to be considered the better
option.
>  Remember that my argument was in response to someone saying effectively
> (paraphrasing here) "why pay for VB when linux has a good development
> environment?".  My response can be summed up with "Because the gain is
> often far outweighed by the expense".
>
> Hope that this makes my position a little clearer.
>
> Alexander Else
> Internet Operations Technician
> OzEmail / UUNET Asia Pacific Operations
>
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