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[petite_abeille]

On Friday, Mar 7, 2003, Kevin Frank wrote:

> In fact, to generalize a bit more, most people take the short-term 
> path of least
> resistance, regardless of the long-term consequences. (I'm often 
> guilty of that
> myself.)

Perhaps... but I guess this is missing the point... this is not about 
individual choices... how many times have you started a (corporate) job 
where the IT department kindly asked you what kind of computing 
environment you would prefer to use to work more efficient? I don't 
know of any sizable example. Usually you use what you get. Period. And 
in a corporate world, this the result of a top down decision. Whoever 
is in charge decides and the rest of the company lives with the 
consequences. Which open a window of opportunity for those "in charge" 
to "choose" a "better" solution in the first place. So I will venture 
that this has more to do with "bottom line numbers" than any individual 
free choice. To quote Arthur Fink:

"If I thought that Chandler or any other tool offered a real chance of
helping with all this, and I believed that it would be a _durable tool_ 
that
may become a _standard_, then it would be easy to sell me on investing 
my
time on learning it."

Replace "I" by BigCo.

PA.