Fastfission wrote:
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My purely speculative guess is that -- like
large universities and
other slow-to-change bureaucracies which have no profit motive, tight
funds, and no customer-feedback systems -- they think in terms of
big, uniform solutions that cost lots of money, are hard to upgrade,
and are centrally controlled.
On the contrary, universities *do* have profit motives, money available,
and customer feedback systems. They still use big, uniform solutions
that cost lots of money, are hard to upgrade, and are centrally
controlled, but they generally manage to upgrade things at the end of
each academic year.
They do have the summer to make upgrades, unlike most 24x7x365.35 government
institutions.
That said, at one point I worked for someone closely involved with the N-1th
US Internal Revenue Service major systems upgrade, and that was
approximately criminally mishandled.
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-george william herbert
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