[ale] OT: Cobb County business license office

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 05/21/2012 03:45 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
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> On 05/21/2012 01:37 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> On 05/21/2012 01:16 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> HA! I ESPECIALLY like the "expect the best".
>>>
>>> I recall the line from Apollo 13, "We're riding a bomb built by
>>> the lowest bidder".
>>>
>>> Most gov orgs rely on outside contracting for IT build and often
>>> ongoing support. There's a sweet spot between "stupid money" and
>>> "low cost crap" that is rarely found, it seems.
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>> Turns out they have passed some new law which requires additional
>> paperwork, thus the backup.
>>
>> Speaking of gov. orgs., they are migrating Cobb County Schools from
>>   groupwise to exchange/outlook.  They gave all the teachers a
>> document to assist them with the process.  29 pages.  My wife got
>> to page 3 where it stated, it should finish within 1 hour.  She
>> left her laptop on over night, still wasn't finished.  Contacted IT
>> support and they tried to go through the same process remotely,
>> same results.  Now their sending someone out to the school.
>>
> Looks like they're going from bad to worse,,,,,,,,

I wouldn't say that.  Groupwise is a pretty decent product, if properly 
configured AND you provide the proper support and hardware.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson