Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)

Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by listenallyall on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:36AM (#32200956)

Cutting and pasting with scissors and actual paste sounds pretty awful. But what I was hoping to get more insight about, if the task was to draw tens of thousands of pages of flowcharts (not text), would a 1980's PC (maybe 16mb RAM, 5.25" floppies, no GUI) be more efficient than a pen and paper? Even on a modern PC, I can often draw a flowchart quite a bit faster than I can create it in Lucidcharts or similar software.

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Re:Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went l... by ctrager on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:42AM (#32212883)

I dunno. I myself was pretty clueless about PCs at that time. I owned a Kaypro from the early 1980s that ran CP/M, but I never touched a PC running Windows (or even just DOS) until 1994. They weren't part of the centralized IT departments I worked in. They WERE part of a sorta grass roots revolt by the user departments, setting up their own Lotus spreadsheets, whatever, as a way of bypassing the slow bureaucratic centralized IT departments.

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