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From: kent@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Complexity in microcomputers
Message-ID: <737@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 20:05:23 EST
Article-I.D.: xanth.737
Posted: Tue Mar 24 20:05:23 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 03:45:51 EST
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Distribution: world
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: system administration MSDOS microcomputers
Summary: How to get rich - free idea

[in response to two articles detailing the unlikelihood of a business type
 succeeding as his own Un*x guru/sysop]
 
The answer to Chuck's "somebody who solves this will get rich" (paraphrased)
is to set up a service company to do 2 things:

	1) remote apply bug fixes to business user's vanilla un*x clones,
	   using something like the Blue Lynx(tm) technology;
	2) on site or remote install new, purchased applications software,
	   and maintain with patches.

Since 1 could be done with Kermit and a script file, it could be fairly
automated.  If 2 were limited to a small range of products, the easy cases
could also be automated, just keep a list of applicable clientele.  You
would earn your money debugging unexpected interactions among the various
packages within each user's suite of software.  Still, in a universe of
Wordstar(tm), dbase III(tm) and Peachtree Accounting(tm) or whoever is in
first place, this could become a multimillion service industry to the first
guy in the door.  Personally, I've been rich; I prefer poor.  Still, if you
prefer rich, go for it!
--
Kent Paul Dolan, "The Contradictor", 25 years as a programmer, CS MS Student
at ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, to find out how I was supposed to be doing this
stuff all these years.  3D dynamic motion graphics a specialty.  Work wanted.

Unemployment is soooo nice though...I never have to disclaim anything!

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