[Gllug] The total cost of ownership to Ealing Council

[Nix]

On 7 Sep 2009, Christopher Hunter uttered the following:

> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 20:32 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
>>  Work got rid of real faxes and replaced them with this e-fax thing. Not
>> only was it implemented in a broken way but the users couldn't work it
>> either to see that it was broken.
>
> That's fairly typical of corporate stupidity - it's easily overcome by
> firing the more stupid managers, and retraining the rest.  You could
> start with the fool who thought that e-fax would be a "good idea"...

The problem is that in non-Linux-focused companies (the vast majority,
including *all* those that aren't computing-related), one of these
managers is generally the CEO, who insists on Exchange so his
BlackBerry works. :/
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