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I have a better solution, they should by a Brand New P233 or P2 233 or P2 266 computer for under a grand. Businesses will be allot more productive with a fast machine.
Not necessarily so... the "modern" stuff tends to be heavily Windoz oriented, which offers a certain problem. When the task is to do serious heads down (or 'phone in your ear') work, GUI screens are a serious productivity inhibitor. Most folks just don't have three hands.
So, if you're a small business with a set of systems (A/P, A/R, G/L, inventory, etc.) running character mode DOS, the leap to GUI/Windoz isn't going to be a productivity boost.
Fact: in an encyclopedia of desktop (PC, Unix, Amiga, Mac, Radio Shack, etc.) applications there were 3056 publishers (vendors) with 21,000 titles (applications)... granted many of these were non-business. But then factor in those applications that were written by cousin Fred when he was 16 & just learing dBase II in the early '80s.... so let's conservatively say there are at least 10,000 desktop business applications.
That's a huge number. Desktop vendors don't keep track of their customers very well. Customers are very lax about upgrading & keeping on current maintenance....
- David |
