Standards Strategy -- Paying Less for More

by Stephen J. Andriole

The whole area of standards is fraught with emotion. Nearly everyone in your organization is sure to have an opinion about the company's choice of operating systems, applications, hardware, software acquisition, services, even system development life-cycles. Everyone -- even the people who have nothing to do with maintaining your computing and communications environment -- will have strong opinions about when to move to the next version of Microsoft Office. In fact, discussions about standards often take on epic proportions, with otherwise sane professionals threatening to fall on their swords if the organization doesn't move to the newest version of Word (or Notes, or Exchange, or Visio, or whatever).

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Standards Strategy -- Paying Less for More March 1999