Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:36:26 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: BSD Question's. Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOECAFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200512260528.14110.kstewart@owt.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kent Stewart >Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 5:28 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: BSD Question's. > >Each browser has some technology that they depend on and you >have to use >that browser before you can use their services. The 80/20 rule probably >applies because the banks can program for IE and get 85% of the people >without trippling their web development costs. > No, it is because banks historically are taken advantage of by IT providers. And why not - nobody likes them, if you were lucky enough to get a bank contract you would do it too. It's kind of like doing work for the IRS. Banks always get way overcharged and get the most inapplicable and expensive technology possible. The web dev. houses that get bank contracts overcharge mightily, and put their neophyte designers on the jobs. They have to, by the time the bank pays them it has cost more in legwork to get the money than the job is worth, most times. Ted
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