"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
> >
> > I've come to the conclusion that ZDnet is nothing but the propaganda organ
> > of techno-fascists. Remember, they were the ones hyping the NC so much a
> > few years ago, until I suggested that too many underpowered machines in
> > offices would likely increase the rate of postal episodes at work...
>
> If the economies of scale had not turned PCs into NCs, the idea
> would have been good. But you can't produce a low cost terminal
> for the price of a PC when your volumes are so much lower.
> That and the fact that the execution of the idea was highly
> mismanaged and motivated primarily by the desire to pull the
> rug out from under Microsoft made it a questionable business
> venture. It was a high stakes game that became irrelevant when
> the web took off.
>
> Larry made an interesting comment at the CATO conference
> last year I think. The gist of it was that you should leave
> the configuration, management, backup, etc. of machines of non-IT
> people in the hands of IT "professionals". It was a MIS mentality,
> derived from the NC efforts and when I heard it I didn't like
> it.
Larry Ellison? Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that as far as
the consumer market is concerned, whenever Larry speaks, do the
opposite of what he says, and you'll make money. There is a
reason why HE isn't in Bill Gates' shoes, and thats it.
> But given the amount of time I spend installing, upgrading,
> debugging, etc. software, there is merit to the argument.
> I've spent the better part of the last 2 weeks upgrading
> to Win2K, reinstalling software, testing it, etc. Now its
> great once you have it done, but for people who are from
> outside the industry it has got to be a nightmare.
Haven't gone to 2k yet. I'm confused, thats the upgrade to
NT right? I'll probably do that in a few months when I get
a machine to put my NT IIS drive into. Right now I'm
wrestling with getting x-windows to run well on my Win98 box,
communicating with my linux box, which has no monitor...the
refresh is terrible, and proceses keep hanging on me.
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