Sometimes legacy systems must be preserved to safeguard a vital function. This was not one of those times
who, me? Welcome once again dear reader, to the sanctuary of sympathy we call Who, Me? where tales of technical derring-do are shared alongside stories of derring-at-least-you-tried.
This week meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Randi” who worked in financial services. Among his colleagues was a product manager who jealously guarded his PC, and would not allow it to be upgraded – or indeed touched – by anyone but himself.
Since the product manager’s performance for the company was deemed more than satisfactory – performance at least partly attributed to the magical spreadsheet he had on his PC – this behavior was tolerated. For a time.
Unfortunately, as often happens, time moved on. The point came when the firm could no longer accept an ancient, un-upgradeable PC on the network.
