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Re: system configuration: required vs. recommended ?
Subject:Re: system configuration: required vs. recommended ? From:"Martin Soderstrom" <scribbler1382 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:10:36 -0400
It's a marketing ploy to widen the potential customer demographic. In my
experience, even the recommended is low in most cases. The real problem is
that test systems are usually the equivalent of flying gas tanks...when an
application is deployed in a real world situation there are so many possible
variables that most companies are thankful if their product functions at
all.
"Sarah Hosking" <shosking -at- pivotal -dot- com> wrote in message news:111587 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> What is the purpose of listing both the "required" and "recommended"
system
> configuration? Why do this when the recommended configuration is really
> the only way the software will run well enough to be usable.
>
> When I worked in tech support, I regurlary fielded calls from furious
> customers who had read on the box that all they needed was, say, a 486
with
> 16 Mb of RAM, when in reality that was only enough to launch the
application
> (barely). If they wanted to actually perform any tasks against their
data,
> they would need 64 Mb and pentium.
>
>
>
>
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