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From: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Complexity in microcomputers
Message-ID: <15405@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 18:03:55 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.15405
Posted: Fri Mar 20 18:03:55 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 15:46:34 EST
References: <165@micropen>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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Keywords: system administration MSDOS microcomputers
Summary: You hit it right on the nose Dave

In article <165@micropen>, dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
< My point is that the executive who now kills his PC when he's done
< will have an entirely different beast when these 386/UNIX/XENIX/ADOS
< boxes arrive.  Communication (24 hours a day) will be necessary--
< commonplace.  Best download rates, etc.  But who is going to manage
< this cacophony of machines?  I find it hard to believe that Mr.
< corporate-America-middle-manager is going to learn the guts of uucp,
< or how to apply a patch to netnews.  By the amount of trouble I've had
< trying to get people to use their d&$m passwords here, I find it hard
< to believe that computer discipline will be immediate.  
< 
< Any solutions or do you all think I've found a non-problem?
< 
< David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.

Actually Dave I suspect you have hit it right on the nose. As systems get
more complicated they will be *impossible* to sell to business because the
6 weeks the executive spends learning the system + the cost of the system
is more expensive than the increase in productivity. So the ROI is not 
there and the system doesn't get bought. Many people are trying to 
capitalize on this 'problem' (Metaphor comes to mind) since the first
person to come up with a viable solution should get rich. 


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