COMPUTER INDUSTRYWhy is that computers (which operate by logic) are run by system managers with logic educationally removed. 6Phd's do not equal 1 Cs (Common-sense) in practical application. Is it not time the computer industry took it's corporate head out of the trough and looked were it is going?. I am a firm believer in old sayings such as :- "KISS". KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID. "WHEN YOU ARE UP TO YOUR NECK IN ALLIGATORS YOU FORGET YOUR ORIGINAL INTENTION WAS TO DRAIN THE SWAMP" "DON'T RE-INVENT THE WHEEL JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A PUNCTURE" "WHEN YOU IN A HOLE STOP DIGGING" Don't hire a JCB and make it worse. It is pointless training people to use/program computers without teaching them common-sense. There are too many IT depts. who have forgotten that they are there to serve the company, not the company is there to serve them. The insane quest for more power and "BELLS & WHISTLES" begets more power and "BELLS & WHISTLES", in other words the eternal loop. The computer industry is about to disappear up it's own orifice. The fact that IT managers are suffering stress is no surprise, if they are managers it is them who are cranking the wheel, so don't complain you are feeling giddy. The STRESS of a manager who accepts the word of a salesman that said it would only take two days to install and implement "E-MAIL". My response would be "OK, You install it, I will pay two days at the going rate. The third day I get 50% discount, 4th 75%, 5th I get it free of all charges and you stay till it's finished". It cures unrealistic claims at stroke. As for the millennium, the industry is like a racing cyclist, it has it's head down peddling like hell following a white line, Snag, the white line stops at a brick wall. A bloody big brick wall. If it took the time to take it's head out the trough long enough to see where it's going it may have time to drive round it. Or have I missed the point of the race, is it to see who makes the biggest bang when they hit the wall?. It will be interesting to find out whether the cost of computers/ the millennium/ and IT staff will be as much as the cost of the people that computers replaced. A lot of corporate heads should be asking "We pay for the best, how come the you got us in this mess", but judging from past history, they are daft enough to give them a triple pay increase.
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