General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Why do people hate the government so much? [View all]slightlv
(4,750 posts)when I was DoD Civ. Not only the hardware, but also the software. We had 30 year old programs, written in-house, that needed to be updated and rewritten. But no one could make enough sense of the program as it was currently written to upgrade it. And, rather than bid it out they just kept running the same program. Which meant we had really old hardware and O/S which is all that could handle those old programs.
The other thing that really got me was the money wasted on buying software, itself. I had a couple of pieces of software that I used constantly in creating the Distance Learning courses online. I'd spent a lot of time testing software and comparing it for pricing, etc. What I recommended I'd already used for 5 years on my own projects. But even after it was okayed as safe, they still fought me on buying it. $39 vs $499. That's a huge difference for a piece of software that actually worked *better* than the more expensive one.
I will say I was rather happy with the hardware change outs. And they were on the spot when it came to upgrading certain items, like multiple monitors, etc. BUT one little glitch, and their answer was always to reimage the system, rather than fixing the glitch. Which, of course, meant a whole lot more work for us. Put a lot more emphasis on keeping backups current!
Edit history
Recommendations
1 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):