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That’s so infuriating. But, while the people in your story sound dumb, they still sound way more technically literate than 95% of society. Azure is blue, AWS is followed by OME.

Teach a 60 year old industrial powertrain salesman to use Linux and to redevelop their 20 year old business software for a different platform.

Also explain why it’s worth spending food, house, and truck money on it.

Finally, local IT companies are often incompetent. You get entire towns worth of government and business managed by a handful of complacent, incompetent local IT companies. This is a ridiculously common scenario. It totally sucks, and it’s just how it is.




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