Looking on the bright side, there s still lots of room for consultants and integrators to help people with even the most basic tasks. Trust me, with users like those in Congress out there, none of us is going to need to get day jobs outside of technology anytime soon. We re not talking rocket science here or forcing writers to use fancy e-mail subject headers. Just blasting spam away with professional-strength antispam server programs like Lyris MailShield , or BrightMail cuts down my mail load by a third. You just need to make sure your customer understands that by delivering simple mail management, you ve made their life easier.
People have a bad habit of always taking infrastructure improvements for granted.
All of that will help your business. I didn't make myself clear. HP has rolled the dice. Now it's a question whether the throw pays off or sends the company to the poor house. Columnist Charles Cooper weighs in.