Re: AS adoption barriers (starter kit)
Re: AS adoption barriers (starter kit)
- Subject: Re: AS adoption barriers (starter kit)
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:22:42 +0100
Bill Briggs wrote:
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At 3:45 PM -0600 03/10/01, email@hidden wrote:
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>But do you know how difficult it is to get someone at ABC Printing
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>Company to let you in the front door to show them what can be done
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>with AppleScript?
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Sure do. And it's very difficult to understand.
It's a shame, sure, but I can kinda appreciate why folks might not want to
know...
First off, I think the industry is quite conservative in nature anyway.
Mistakes and downtime can be very expensive indeed, so once they've got a
process that works they'll be equally reluctant to change it. Ask your
printer chap sometime to tell you a few tales of what happens when Things
Go Wrong. It's scary stuff. Easiest way to avoid anything nasty and
unexpected happening is to stick with tried and tested practices.
Secondly, I doubt that the squeeze that's on the industry these days will
encourage change/growth/new ideas. Folks'll not want to take any sort of
risk if the future's looking uncertain. If you were giving away a
zero-risk, zero-cost automation package with guaranteed returns I think
you'd still have a hard time persuading folks to adopt it. Nobody wants to
stick their head out of the trenches. Can't blame 'em.
(At least, that's my reading from the sidelines... folks are welcome to
correct me if I'm talking nonsense:)
Cheers,
has