On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 elhaddi at constantdata.com wrote: > I also believe places where the Hardware is used by more than one > business unit (research and admin) lagged in conversion because they are > usually dominated by pragmatists rather than visionaries who are usually > early adopters. Elhaddi-- Your message was very informative, clear and helpful. I will focus now on your final statement (reproduced above). In the division where I work, the Chief Accountant plays a very key role in computing. He supervises the entire IT department and he takes extraordinary control over things. In fact, he goes so far as to not do what the faculty (e.g., our Computer Services Committee) want him to do. He is given his power by the Division Head and it is rather hard to make anything happen with him in the way (the Division Head is very busy, etc.). Why we have done this to ourselves is beyond me (it happened before I got here), but we will continue to strive to improve the flexibility and responsiveness of our administrative structure. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list