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This is why the number-one request from users is: "Please don't change anything." When you go through an office area, where people are using "enterprise" softw
by analog31 3y ago
This is why the number-one request from users is: "Please don't change anything."
When you go through an office area, where people are using "enterprise" software all day, make a mental note of the little pieces of paper taped to their monitors and cube walls, with written-out instructions for getting through everyday tasks. One thing is that they don't want to be forced to re-make those instructions, which may have been discovered at great cost.
- b112 3y agoYep. Some industries, at this point in time, should be using the same compute and toolkit in 100+ years. My mechanic is using software he bought in the 90s, in an emulator, becuae why change? What's the point? He enters customer names, he books appointments, he inputs inventory, he bills. Nothing has changed in 30 years, norhing will change in another 30. It's barely a gui by today's standard, and works wonderfully. Why transition to another POS system? Why worry about conversion of current data? And the stuff he has is rock solid. All the new stuff he tried has bugs, and the bug fixed versions have different bugs. You wanna be a hard core dev? Develop stuff that will be written to floppies and pressed to CDs, with no internet for updates.
- nine_k 3y ago90s? Look at banks, ticket reservation systems, utility management systems, etc, where COBOL sticks from 1960s, and benefits of a rewrite remain dubious.
- eviks 3y agoAnother thing is you wouldn't want to impose that great cost of discovering UI for everyday tasks to all the future generations of office area dwellers