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| 3147.1 | ptr | ROYALT::GONDA | DECelite: Pursuit of Knowledge, Wisdom, and Happiness. | Tue Jul 31 1990 12:14 | 5 |
| check out
Marketing Issues NODEMO::MARKETING 820
Digital style of working HUMAN::DIGITAL 819
both of them have had discussions sometime or another on this topic.
Do a dir/tit=workstations or dir/tit=productivity and see what comes up.
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| 3147.2 | Another pointer | WINDY::SHARON | Sharon Starkston | Tue Jul 31 1990 14:31 | 10 |
| More in CURIE::CASE
People frequently ask for this and it's tricky to do. The conferences have
heated discussions that should give you a feel for how to quantify it to a
customer. You will not find something definitive that says you will produce
code or documents 300% faster if you use X terminals.
The best way is to use a workstation yourself - you will soon understand and
be able to communicate precisely why they want to move to a multi-window,
graphically driven display.
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| 3147.3 | No magic bullet | STKMKT::SWEENEY | Patrick Sweeney in New York | Tue Jul 31 1990 18:26 | 7 |
| Computing has become a necessary tool of business. If you can justify
a telephone for an employee, you can justify a personal computer.
If by "justifying", you mean creating a business case in terms of
return on investment that a UNIX or VMS workstation or VT1000 is better
than a personal computer for business computing, then I claim that such
a context-free justification cannot be created.
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| 3147.4 | | MARX::WALSH | | Wed Aug 01 1990 10:19 | 9 |
| First of all I work on a workstation all of the time, so I know the benifits.
Our users were looking for more of a justification then just "some engineer from
Littleton says workstations are great". I'm not looking for justifications of
workstations over micro's, I'm interested workstations over terminals.
Thanks for the pointers. I'm looking into them.
Dan
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| 3147.5 | | CSC32::B_KEMP | X'ed out TopFlite | Wed Aug 01 1990 13:07 | 16 |
| This has been a subject of heated debate here with one of my coworkers. He
has stated that workstations do not necessarily increase productivity in the
marketplace. He has a good point. As I am sure you are aware, most of the
applications in the 'real' world are database applications with a bunch of data
entry people updating the database. If you try to push improved productivity
through workstations on this type of environment, you will get one sale and then
lose that customer's confidence. There is little need for more than what a terminal
will do in that environment. If you are talking about development/engineering/
customer support type environments where the user is juggling many applications
and possibly multiple systems, you bet workstations will help productivity. The
right solution for the problem should be arrived at based on the analyzing the
problem first. I wouldn't rabbit hunt with a tank and I wouldn't bear hunt with
slingshot although, the tank salesman will sure try to convince me that an expensive
tank is a more productive tool than a slingshot.
Bill
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| 3147.6 | Get it if you have need for it.. | FUEL::graham | primal screams | Thu Aug 02 1990 17:41 | 8 |
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All depends on what kind of work the user is doing.
Here in New York, many people have workstations...including
secretaries. They use DECwrite, Interleaf and other support
tools needed to support their various groups
Kris...
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| 3147.7 | Digital just isn't representative | STKMKT::SWEENEY | Patrick Sweeney in New York | Thu Aug 02 1990 21:52 | 4 |
| Something that runs a "word processor" WYSIWYG, on a bitmap display for
laser printer output, has become a necessary tool for secretaries.
Justify that it be a workstation rather than a PC...
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