The Underscore Archives

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:32:25PM +0100, Tim Gaunt wrote:
> Wayne Douglas wrote:
> >I was annoyed with the off cuff way people dismiss something potentially 
> >really good, through lack of education/incorrect perception of the 
> >subject - something I think Mac/Linux users have been 'bundled' with for 
> >far too long!!!
> 
> Hear hear! Well said that man :)
> 
> I'm getting tired of people writing new products off based on no prior
> experience or knowledge of it and even before they've even hit the market
> -it would seem most of the time they're writing something potentially cool
> off based purely on the organisation that's developed it...
>
> It would be nice if people would give things a chance and would be a little
> more open minded/un-biased to these things, why does everything have to be
> good/evil etc all the time?

It doesn't need to be good vs evil but it ought to be balanced against
the very real problem in the corporate world where millions are spent
on rollouts of software that was bought because someone read some
advertising blurb, went for lunch with the salesman from the company
and thought they were getting a good deal.

This is why in the real world with thousands of users getting software
rolled out companies often wait a good few years before adopting
anything.

Which is probably good financial sense because whatever funky whizzy
new features that do come with it just don't save the money when
compared to the support, retraining and licencing costs and there's
other hidden costs too such as the cost of consultants to set it up.

In some ways the "it's not standard" and I can't run it on a Mac/Linux
brigade are making good financial sense, even if often the more
bigoted of them don't always realise that side of it.

        Steve