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| Authored by: Tufty on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 10:32 AM EDT |
And it would be a very good thing if the rest of the software industry learned
that too.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 01:39 PM EDT |
>people don't want to buy operating systems.
In the dawn of comouter time, say, 1975, the smart thing to do was look for
the applications that did what one needed.
Those were purchased/leased whatever.
Then one acquired the hardware and operating system that the applications
required.
Where the techs run IT, that model is usually the one that is folowed.
Where PHBs and certified minesweepers run things, that model is, at best,
unfathonable.
Joe Sixpack simply wants a computer that can do the things he thinks he
needs to do. Unfortunately, Joe Sixpack doesn't know what he wants to do,
but only knows what he has been told he can do.
Possibly the best example of this, is the difference between Salt Lake City-
Provo, and Tacoma-Bellingham, in terms of software development, and R&D.
(How many people realize that per capita, Utah leads the nation in computer
ownership. Yet you can't tell that from either the number of computer
shops, or household names in the computer industry.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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