Upgrades

I had been expecting it for a while now, but after a meeting with our IT consultant, the dreaded word that no company MD wants to hear: “It is time for an upgrade.”


The office staff had been complaining about their office suite not being up to date with the current times and that it needed several steps to either open or create certain file types. We will be upgrading our database shortly, to make it more accessible for all of us and this will include internal communication from all workstations. Our IT man showed up at 0815 (always cheerful) this morning and at 0830 we were at Staples buying Microsoft Office 2007 Professional (including free 2010 upgrade). Running it through the till made me slightly nauseous and that was for just two copies. It was installed as soon as we got back to the office and it was all up and running within 2hours. The office staff are very happy and took great delight in showing me just how fast documents open and the possibilities with the new suite.

Next week I will tell you more about our R197 ceramic including history, applications and technical data.