If Scrooge understood one thing, it was that customers were the folks that paid the bills. Room 2Q8A, strange room numbering system. No one uses standards - that's the first item for my list thought Scrooge. He reached the stairs and discovered to his frustration that each riser was a different height, forcing him to concentrate on each step, least he fall. Scrooge stubbed his toe as it banged into a step a bit higher than he expected.
Standards take forever, for Gods sake they are still working on Fortran.
Scrooge discovered, with frustration that the next set of steps were only a few inches high, but 3 feet wide. This stuff they want to standardize is immature, we aren't really sure the bugs are out yet and already the standards vultures are at the door. Suddenly, Scrooge dropped six inches as he discovered the next step went down, not up. The applications software folks certainly don't seem to need them, they do just fine writing for Intel based PCs with Microsoft operating systems. Of course I wish I could get those applications on my Mac.