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| Originally Posted by gp65:( My educated guess is that the big boys are cheap. Sorry- "Fiscally responsible."
Why else would the company only NOW be getting windows- based computers vs. the green screen. ERAC is STILL a decade behind newer technologies and the branches always look like shit with cheap furniture and old carpet. |
I'm not sure I fault them on not adapting Windows and instead staying with the green screen system. Windows has a tremendous total cost of ownership and requires constant fiddling, repairing, and upgrading. And if the branches had Windows machines that were connected to the Internet, the lost productivity due to all the viral, spyware and adware infections, as well as employees simply surfing during working hours, would be enormous.
They've probably saved a fortune by not getting Windows boxes, so I don't fault them for that. What I do fault them for is that after 20-30 years with the green screen system, they still haven't got it all hooked up; NatRes doesn't talk with operations. It's either gross incompetence, or profit-maximization masquerading as gross incompetence.