[geeks] Good Laptop for Small Biz?

[Brian Dunbar]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Nathan Raymond <nraymond at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>  On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I'm surprised to hear of someone actually USING Access.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You would be surprised (and disturbed I think) by what a lot of small
>>> businesses do.
>>>
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>>
>> Until early this year my former employer was using Foxpro to extract data
>> from the HR system.  'Who gets paid this week', 'who has been fired',
>> 'credentials needed for account management': like that.
>>
>> The entire time it was up and running - 1998 - it sat on X's desk, on it's
>> own wee little computer.
>>
>> For a mid-sized manufacturer, 8,000 employees.
>>
>
> How bad was the performance?
>


>
I never measured it, nor supported it.  X did all that.

But ya know .. of all the complaints we had about this or that system ..
nary one involved the step that system was in charge of.



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