History repeats itself ? For those of us who where in the trenches during the first Unix wars, know that history repeats itself all too much. A friend at DEC told stories of being told to ensure his tools would not work with the 'enemy' camp.
Just as 50% of Americans are now convinced there were WMDs in Iraq, what is the percentage of those that call themselves technologically aware, that uSoft's is easy to work with, uniform, totally upward compatible, yada, yada, yada...
Vendor A, B, C,...; package Z, Y, X,...; integrator 1, 2, 3...; contractor....
Maybe I'm too old, but it sure was nice when at least the applications were written in house, yea we would bitch when the writer of the code was long gone, but still, we could fix it.
Oh well, I just wish I chould get use to saying "its the vendors fault" when ever something goes wrong.
Conair made the descision not to replace/upgrade before January. End of Year, make the profits look better ? The roll of the dice ?
i consulted for a tenent in a building built before 1900. I made a board i have hanging in my office of each generation of wires. The oldest was a private extension for a railroad, not phone but telegraph, then there was western union telegraph, then teletype. The fist telephone demarc had a total of 36 pairs, this was at a time all of Portland has less then 1,000 phones. I followed those piars to the roof, i found the remains of where they then went to open wire. any way add fire pairs, then every generation of telco up to abandoned early fibre !
you think you could cut all the old stuff ? One of the pre 1920's telco pairs still had dial tone !
I spent two whole days trying to find room to feed CAT5 from the basement to my cleints offices.
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read the book by Simon Ramo (the R in TRW)
"The Business of Science: Winning and Losing in the High-Tech Age"
it answers the question ...
-pete
http://www.homeofheroes.com/wings/part1/6_survival .html
History repeats itself ? For those of us who where in the
...
trenches during the first Unix wars, know that history
repeats itself all too much. A friend at DEC told stories
of being told to ensure his tools would not work with
the 'enemy' camp.
Just as 50% of Americans are now convinced there were
WMDs in Iraq, what is the percentage of those that call
themselves technologically aware, that uSoft's is easy
to work with, uniform, totally upward compatible, yada,
yada, yada
Vendor A, B, C, ...; package Z, Y, X, ...; ...; contractor ....
integrator 1, 2, 3
Maybe I'm too old, but it sure was nice when
at least the applications were written in house,
yea we would bitch when the writer of the code
was long gone, but still, we could fix it.
Oh well, I just wish I chould get use to saying
"its the vendors fault" when ever something goes
wrong.
Conair made the descision not to replace/upgrade
before January. End of Year, make the profits look better ? The roll of the dice ?
-pete
i consulted for a tenent in a building built before 1900. I made a board i have hanging in my office of each generation of wires. The oldest was a private extension for a railroad, not phone but telegraph, then there was western union telegraph, then teletype. The fist telephone demarc had a total of 36 pairs, this was at a time all of Portland has less then 1,000 phones. I followed those piars to the roof, i found the remains of where they then went to open wire. any way add fire pairs, then every generation of telco up to abandoned early fibre !
you think you could cut all the old stuff ? One of the pre 1920's telco pairs still had dial tone !
I spent two whole days trying to find room to feed
CAT5 from the basement to my cleints offices.