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

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:08:46 -0400 (EDT), Linux Idiot wrote:

>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.

     Are we talking about Intel based boxes running the x86 version of
Solaris or are they actually replacing SPARC Stations for Wintel
boxes??  Switching to win95 on x86 boxes is bad enough, but if it's the
latter it should actually be fun to watch...their users are in for a
big surprise :-D.

>
>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.

     This is a prime of example of the level of knowledge you're
dealing with.  What does she think, that users can access word docs but
somehow can't deal with plain text???  Geezzzz...good luck fighting
them, it's like they're talking a different language (she's definitely
speaking 'clueless').

 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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