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FeedDemon Release Candidate 3 is now available for download.

Technology gets better. It gets revised, improved and updated. It comes in new versions. That’s a good thing, unless you’re oblivious to how dependent your organization has become on technology.

Failing to understand why your primary business computer shouldn’t also be your family computer for three kinds of digital cameras, surfing obscene web sites and weekend gambling is just short-sighted. It’s even more short-sighted if your primary business computer is five or six generations old and still running Windows 98SE with none of Microsoft’s critical or recommended updates. I saw this situation today at a client’s site.

There’s no budget for technology. It’s thought of as something that they buy one time, turn it on and it works. But, when it doesn’t work it’s a crisis of international proportions. Their servers are out of date. The employees are coping in outrageous ways with outdated PC’s.

There is so much to do. There is no I.T. staff leader or trusted advisor. There is genuine fear of paying an outsider any hourly rate to keep the technology up to date and running well.

One of these days, the thinking will change. It’s not likely I’ll be around to see it at this particular company!