[LINK] Windows XP in business

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Mon, 28 May 2012, Glen Turner wrote:

> On 27/05/12 16:38, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>
>> There is the human factor: one of the things that some businesses discover is that new staff need to be trained how to use old technology.
>
> Yes, there's quite a small industry in training people in the user
> interface of IBM mainframe applications, and another one in skinning
> those applications so they present a more common user interface.
>
> Personally, if you've purchased/built an application and the provider
> doesn't yet offer a web interface then that's a fair sign that the
> provider isn't doing their bit.  It's not like the web thing is new anymore.


What about going the other way?  For example, from a UNIX web stack to 
Windows?   Is there any logic to doing this at all?   The only rationale
I have been able to find for doing so is "UNIX is too hard".   But unless you
understand what it is you're trying to achieve, isn't moving to Windows
just going to make matters worse......?



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