Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Does Your Company Suffer From Tech Addiction?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Beatzel has started to look into upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007,
>| the new versions of Microsoft?s operating system and productivity software
>| (word processing, spreadsheets, etc). But the current versions work fine, she
>| says; Beatzel is perfectly content with the status quo and is convinced
>| everyone else would be content, too, if no one had any idea something newer
>| was out there. Nonetheless, she knows that her firm will end up spending more
>| than a million dollars on an upgrade sooner rather than later. ?No one ever
>| says, let?s slow down and make this an eight-year cycle,? she laments.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/07/24/does-your-company-suffer-from-tech-addiction/?mod=yahoo_hs
>
The people to be truly concerned here should be the customers, workers and
shareholders of such companies. Spending money on completely unecessary
equipment is, well, a total waste. In commercial organisations, it has
to be funded either by paying suppliers less, workers less, shareholders
less, or charging customers more. Okay, perhaps you could liquidate
some other assets, too, but that's not a typical approach.
So, folks, at least part of the cost of Windows Vista is likely to be
coming off your pay-rise! Vote for free software!
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