Re: Real World News.."And so it goes"

[Linux Idiot <esoteric@atlnet.com>]

Beech Family wrote:
> 
> To: Listmembers: Appraising Microsoft List:
>         <http://www.appraising-microsoft.org/>
>     cc.Don Crabb
>         <doncrabb@maccentral.com>
> 
> From: Heather Wimberly Beech
>         <tobeth@lava.net>:
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> While we move ever hopefully forward in our quest to dismantle the Windows
> World As We Know It..out there in Nine-to-Five-Land..real people continue
> to have *no choice* as to the computer hardware and software they are
> forced to use every day at the workplace.This not based on anything overtly
> done by the Billster and his Cronies..but rather on the attitudes of
> characters like the CIO mentioned in this piece.
> 

AT&T is doing much the same thing.  Replacing, of all things Sun
workstations with Windows 95 PCs.  To show you just how much corporate
management is clueless, my last assignment was a completely UNIX based
environment.  They replaced Sun workstations with Wintel (95).  The
whole environment was X based, so then they go and buy Hummingbird to
emulate X on win95.  Absolutely no sense.  Windows for the sake of
Windows.

Although not all of AT&T has gone the way of Wintel, I find all kinds of
internal documents on the Intranet that are Word. The top level of
management actually put out a word based doc that all employees should
have had access to.

A lot of it is educational issues.  I'm responsible for a segment of the
AT&T HR Intranet development.  When I suggested to one person that they
should quite sending word document versions of their newsletter via
email and publish it on the Intranet, she said that there would be
people who could not access it.  Think about it.  We're talking about
people who obviously have email and MS word.  I'm still fighting this
one.

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@atlnet.com

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