Feds: Keep your computers longer, Rep says
If we can drive cars for more than 100,000 miles, Congressman wonders, why do agencies need the newest IT products?
Rep. John Duncan, (R-Tenn.), has three cars. Two have well over 100,000 miles and one has about 98,000 miles, and he said "they're still doing real well."
He's not one to get the hottest and newest car on the market, and he thinks the government may not need the latest IT on the market either.
As he sees it though, agency officials want the hottest technology, and since it's on the government's tab, they get the most advanced IT with all "the latest bells and whistles."
At an Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on buying IT Feb. 27, he asked:
"How can we incentivize people to get more use out of the technology they have and hold onto it and use it one year longer or two years longer?"
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