Your out of Touch with Reality....
As a former Systems Admin and now a owner of my company I suggest new technologies everyday to clients. What your now seeing,and most "bean-counters" don't get and can't comprehend is the concept of produtivity. I just don't understand why financial people feel that they can hold on to their ancient computer systems FOREVER. The ironic thing is that CFO's complain they want longer life span out of their equiptment and then they decreciate them in 3 years! Why would they do that unless they are already planning to buy more machines? The fact of the matter reamins that innovation and prodctivity is running at a break-neck pace. If your not willing to keep up and be afforded every opportunity that it allows your business to compete in the marketplace then you are a short minded in-duh-vidual. I think that in tight economic times that CFO's LOVE to blame IT for their woes instead of looking in their own dept and looking at their own financial mis-management of the company. The last company I worked for it was ironic how the financial staff had the best computers, the best chairs, desks, and tables, but the rest of the company suffered. Its a double standard. I would know because my market is Buffalo NY. I know what BACKWARD companies do here. I've even seen some companies on Win 95 and NT Server! Their technologies are so old that other companies are simply out competing them because they can get to market faster because they have better technology. I can see it as a Vendor but they can't see it and wonder why their multi-million dollar company is loosing their most important contracts left and right and is about to go out of business. That's my 2 cents.
