Comments on: Without Customers and Clients, We Have Nothing to Do http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/07/17/without-customers-and-clients-we-have-nothing-to-do/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Knights http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/07/17/without-customers-and-clients-we-have-nothing-to-do/comment-page-1/#comment-5452 John Knights Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:25:22 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=9259#comment-5452 I totally agree with your attitude to the realities of commercial awareness. Correct me if I am wrong but it is not the Technician's decision as to what gets installed. Their mandate is to install the software required by the facility and those teaching and learning there. Your statements are so on the mark I cannot think why this would not be obvious to those concerned. Perhaps in a situation where something really is incompatible or leaves a gaping security hole then fine, the Technicians would be justified in their protests (but would of course state this fact). Anybody who tries to paint Firefox into this picture is just going to look foolish. The fact that you need IE at all is down to developers with completely the wrong attitude and there are no excuses for proprietary web-standards in this day and age. I myself have to deal daily with systems just like this, though I am talking about corporate B2B the principle is just the same. IT Technicians in the little insular world would do well to take a peek over the fence from time to time and see what lays outside their own garden. The world is rapidly moving on from a time where Microsoft Certification was the be-all and end-all and anybody who does not embrace the possibilities of combining the old and new will eventually go the way of the dinosaurs. I totally agree with your attitude to the realities of commercial awareness. Correct me if I am wrong but it is not the Technician’s decision as to what gets installed. Their mandate is to install the software required by the facility and those teaching and learning there. Your statements are so on the mark I cannot think why this would not be obvious to those concerned.

Perhaps in a situation where something really is incompatible or leaves a gaping security hole then fine, the Technicians would be justified in their protests (but would of course state this fact). Anybody who tries to paint Firefox into this picture is just going to look foolish.

The fact that you need IE at all is down to developers with completely the wrong attitude and there are no excuses for proprietary web-standards in this day and age. I myself have to deal daily with systems just like this, though I am talking about corporate B2B the principle is just the same.

IT Technicians in the little insular world would do well to take a peek over the fence from time to time and see what lays outside their own garden. The world is rapidly moving on from a time where Microsoft Certification was the be-all and end-all and anybody who does not embrace the possibilities of combining the old and new will eventually go the way of the dinosaurs.

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