In the mid-1980s, I was part of a management team at a hospital in New Mexico that made a decision to bring NCR MS-DOS based PCs and a Unix based supermicrocomputer into the hospital. The application that most managers wanted was Lotus 1-2-3, so it seemed like a reasonable decision to purchase PCs.
Payroll was the main application on the supermicrocomputer and NCR had a solid product.
Overall, I felt that the computing team had done a solid job. The staff had asked for a Phillips-screw driver and we didn?t say: ?Here what you need is a hammer.? Just after the rollout, I got my first taste of PMS. I got my chops busted by a lab tech over not picking Apple and a senior manager complained that we did not buy IBM for the supermicrocomputer.
Over the years, I have been staggered by the emotions and attachment some IT Professionals show to a particular brand. I was even got caught up in it: I bleed Novell red for a decade. I felt like I lost a child when I heard my largest Novell network had switched to Windows.
Have you seen this? I am collecting info.
