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To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (142578)8/31/2001 5:29:49 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Michael,<<<I'll state it again. AT THIS POINT IN TIME, I generally see no compelling reason to upgrade most PCs in the organizations I have worked with.>>>

You could have made the same statement anytime in the last 25 years and be just as correct as you are now. The point is that coincident with Moore's Law, computers that are more than three years old, have and will have a difficult time keeping up swith software development. Moore's Law will eventually reach a physical limit , but the addendum, MCMoore's Law, refering to software development have no such limitation.

What's more, the bar for acceptable productive standards are constantly being raised. What is acceptable for a a worker to wait 25 - 35 seconds to get a response from his Excel spread sheet today , is not going to be acceptable in the next two years when more than one employee will be collaborating on a single document and doing other things at the same time on his computer - or participating in a whiteboard exercise with other students in an Internet education program. Granted this is not main stream right now, but giving employees the capabilities only of only what he currently needs is equivalent to a football quarterback throwing the ball to where the receiver is at the time he releases the ball, rather than to where he needs to get to.

Moore's Law is a reality and companies and people who will thrive in the future are those that can deal with it's consequences.

Mary
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