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It is a cliché worth recalling when designing software. Ninety percent of users, it is said, use ten percent of the features in a software package. For that vast majority of “average users,” the other ninety percent of the features only add needless complexity that make the key ten harder to learn. These extra features simply serve to increase the TCO of software deployments and headaches at the helpdesk, not productivity of the business. http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=351 --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <tbutler at uninet.info> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | --------------------------------------------------------------- Presently on "Albert" (DP PPC 970 "G5" running at 2.0 GHz)
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