This pilot fish at a catalog retailer doubles as Mac technical support guy and advertising project manager. “The company had been bought out several years earlier, and most of the decisions were now being made by accountants a few hundred miles away,” he says.
One of those decisions is to extend the original three-year lease on first-generation Apple Power Mac G5s by several years. But, fish notes, these are heavy-use machines and are starting to break down.
Fish sends word up the line that this isn't a good idea — so many machines have failed that the company is dangerously close to not having enough computers to get the work done. That would jeopardize the catalog production schedule, along with millions of dollars in sales, all for the sake of about $90,000.
from Computerworld https://ift.tt/37CqqjE
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