[Ti] IT Departments (was: Re: Windows is good advice for the consultants who support it ...

[Ardeshir Mehta]

On 19-Jan-06, at 7:30 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:

> Ardeshir Mehta said:
>
>> Exactly. There should not be any *need* for an IT department, and  
>> all the costs associated with it.
>
> But there is a need. There millions of computer users thar are not  
> computer experts and will help from time to time. The Mac platform  
> have often been shown, from Gartner group fro example, to have  
> lower support costs than Windows. I'm not sure how it stands with  
> Linux and other Unixen, but personally I need support from a good  
> book at least, when I'm on those.

Yes, true.

But I for one would want to see a computer produced that works right  
out of the box ... and indeed improves with time (that is, it figures  
out in short order that when you said "tomahto" you meant to say  
"tomayto", as it were, and with time adapt to all your other  
idiosyncrasies, the way a good human secretary would.

>> (Admittedly that's still not the case with Macs, but that ought to  
>> be the aim anyway.)
>
> The fact that there are IT Departments to this day that still set  
> up the rules and decide what their computer users "need", is as  
> good pointer as any that computer illiterate company leaders and  
> managers don't care what platform they use or what the actual costs  
> are, as long as the IT department says it's OK to use.

Ah, so true, so true.


Oh well Cheers anyway.












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