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- From: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
- Subject: Re: "User firms plagued by LAN money pits"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.100816.25395@vbohub.vbo.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Technology Integration Group
- References: <199301080810.AA14083@tuna.wang.com> <8JAN199309491490@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:08:16 GMT
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- In article <8JAN199309491490@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
- writes:
-
- > I think what you
- > have here is a case of 'escape from MIS' eventually turning into 'running
- >back
- > to MIS screaming HELLLLLLP!', in other words: 'we got PCs on our desk so
- >we
- > wouldn't have to pay MIS for services and to feel we were managing our
- >own
- > systems but we didn't plan it properly and don't know how to run our
- >systems
- > and a salesperson told us this would solve all our problems and we
- >listened to
- > the salesperson instead of our own people ....
-
- Not to be too kind to salespersons, but in my experience it's often been the
- MIS staff that didn't consider problems of scale, planning, etc. This can
- happen easily to a company (in a PC-obsessed society) where PCs have a strong
- champion. And then it turns out the champion has little or no experience with
- more than 3 systems at a time ... or connecting them to the UNIX servers ...
- or network printers ... or ....
-
- Good friend of mine is a senior software manager at a US-wide company that
- produces (and sells, very profitably) PC-based software for CASE. Each of
- their sites has a LAN, and all sites are connected over T1 lines. And my
- friend wanted to print from her desktop PC to a networked printer in the same
- building. Couldn't just do it. System manager couldn't make it work. After
- repeated tries, the problem was solved by attaching a private printer to the
- PC's local port. Thing is, if this company has such difficulties, what are
- the world's MIS departments in general able to do?
-
- At Digital we have no such problems, of course. :-)
-
- ___Pete
-
- kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
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