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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: Why Things Are The Way They ARe
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Date: 24 Apr 91 20:55:48 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

What you are talking about as far as counselors only wanting to order
equipment with one order is definitely true.  However what I find even
worse is when the state unit that deals with technology decides what
the user needs based totally on other users or their own pre conceived
notions with no contact with the client.  If the client has some
computer knowhow it seems to make things even worse in some state
agencies because it ends up being a state against the client sort of
thing.  It would seem to me profitable to the state agencies to
purchase equipment, if it could be found, that is cheaper, and can do
the same job equally well or better.  However sometimes it seems as
though agencies are more in the business of dictating than providing.
Grant

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