On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Chris Warner wrote:
> The only challenge that prevents us geeks from implementing an automated
> system is not technical, but political. Building the infrastructure, coding
> the software, and deploying the system live. It's so technically easy it's
> almost trivial. The hard part is getting people to accept it and use it. I
> am a programmer, not a politician. That's why us geeks have failed so far.
> We don't do politics.
>
> I bet 20 years ago people were saying it would be impossible to report the
> results in 2 days electronically.
>
> Chris
I disagree. The challenges that prevent "we geeks" from implementing
such a system are the usual ones: integration, training, error-checking,
and disaster recovery. Tech has a miserable record for addressing these
issues, and I'm personally not comfortable with implementation by people
who regard them as either trivial or "political".
KeS
|