And it’s tough to remember just how fast computing was changing in the '90s, improving by leaps and bounds all the time with seemingly no ceiling in sight. Consumer computing power was doubling every one and a half years. And in, say, 1994 it wasn’t unreasonable at all to assume that all of that crusty old tech from the '80s and even early '90s surely would have been replaced by the year 2000 anyway without anyone having to do anything special about it. Probably more than once… right?
The crucial disconnect there was that tech people are not necessarily business people and I think a lot of folks grossly underestimated management’s recalcitrance in spending money until it was more than clear they were facing a crisis.
And it’s tough to remember just how fast computing was changing in the '90s, improving by leaps and bounds all the time with seemingly no ceiling in sight. Consumer computing power was doubling every one and a half years. And in, say, 1994 it wasn’t unreasonable at all to assume that all of that crusty old tech from the '80s and even early '90s surely would have been replaced by the year 2000 anyway without anyone having to do anything special about it. Probably more than once… right?
The crucial disconnect there was that tech people are not necessarily business people and I think a lot of folks grossly underestimated management’s recalcitrance in spending money until it was more than clear they were facing a crisis.