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To: Sultan who wrote (5830)	10/3/2002 1:19:25 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

OTOTOTOT One reason I have always been suspicious of productivity gains numbers thrown around.. Too damn hard to judge.. Yeah- I know many who hold this cynical view of the big packages. And believe me if I based my confidence in American business on the IT management I have seen at misc companies around here I would be shorter than that velociraptor guy. One thing the client/server enterprise shift did was put data into a common repository (SQL database) so you could run reports and combine data from your different biz functions (financial against warehouse data, etc). This really was huge, the prior picture was no visibility between different parts of the company (or divisions within the company) until the quarterly numbers came out. Then the internet-based apps allowed for telecommuting and outsourcing of these functions since they could run anywhere. Those are the two major advantages to the new technologies as I see it- definitely something there but maybe not presented that way. Its hard to deny the productivity improvements in the american workforce from the mid-80s to now- they came from something... but what is the question. Lizzie