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Buck wrote:
It's just the way it is. Not a complaint! I need to figure out how to
convince the boss to spend $800 per person plus a new annual maintenance
expense, and if there's any place I'd like to see the conversation turn,
that's it. I like WDSC and want to keep using it. I need the ammo to
convince the boss.
This bit always confuses me. Now, as much as I realize that $800 is
a good chunk o'change when I pull it out of my pocket, and as much
as I realize that business expenses seem just to keep piling on, a
dollar here and a dollar there, it still can't sink in that $800
(plus $200/yr) per developer is that big of a cost when viewed
beside the cost of the developer.
(Granted, I won't be doing it soon as an individual, but that's
because I'm not going to be replacing my personal model 170 with
something that handles V6R1 for a while. At home, I'm stabilized on
V5R3.)
If you figure $800/wk gross salary and think of perhaps a 2%
increase in productivity, it's something of a wash at that point.
Phantom dollars? Yes, agreed. If you think in terms of entire
projects coming on-line in 5 months and 3 weeks instead of 6 months,
the ROI starts spreading across the whole organization.
I've been pushed (at multiple employers) for _years_ to upgrade to
the next version of Word, the next version of Excel, the next
version of /Windows/, the next 'x', all of which supply much more
than I need to telnet to the systems that I work on. I'm not at all
sure what the company costs have been over the years to keep my
various apps current. I _am_ sure that I don't actually _use_ 90+%
of what's in Word; I could get by just as well with Word for Win95
(given a viewer for the newer stuff that keeps getting sent to me).
So, what exactly is the real business deal?
Why is there so much push to distribute so much that is never needed
and never used while complaining about stuff that can benefit the
whole organization?
I've heard all the explanations, I think. They just don't connect
with me.
Tom Liotta
midrange.com
