Qi Jingtao, Chen Yanan and Wu Hongwei didn't go to the conference room, just three people, and sat around the sofa in the office to receive visitors to have a small meeting of the hardware group.

"Sister Chen, Xiao Wu, the work responsibilities of the three of us will be clearer in the future. It turns out that the work at hand remains the same, Sister Chen has to spend more energy on the internal business of the information center, and the work plan management, attendance management, document management, office supplies management, and housekeeping management within the department are still carried out by Sister Chen ,...... continue to be responsible for the implementation of these things" Qi Jingtao began to clarify the work responsibilities of individuals within the group and assign work.

"In the future, our team will also be responsible for the preliminary review of the plan management of computer equipment. I have seen the materials that Director Liu got back for this business, and our task in this link is to receive the computer equipment of various departments of the group, as well as the required spare parts and consumables procurement demand declaration plan. We will summarize, preliminarily review, and write down the preliminary review suggestions, and then report to the group for approval once every half a month.

Personally, I understand that the focus of our hardware management team is on the management of hardware devices. We have been engaged in information construction for so many years, and the computer hardware equipment has been distributed to all departments of the group, and the computer equipment is of high value, and the equipment department is managed as a fixed asset.

As a full-time functional department, our information center must follow up on the computers and computer supporting equipment within the group, establish our own equipment ledger, and carry out professional management. Otherwise, how many sets of computer equipment are there in the group, the brand, specification and model, basic configuration, service life, equipment performance, current operating status, and the use of systems, departments, and users of each set of computer equipment...... If these basic information are not clear, it will be impossible for us to complete the preliminary review of the procurement plan. When the time comes, those who should not be approved will not be approved, and those who should not be approved will not be scolded to death by the business department...... , that's all for the general situation, Sister Chen, Xiao Wu, talk about your views. ”

Qi Jingtao finished telling his work arrangement, smoking a cigarette and waiting for the reaction of his business team members.

Chen Yanan seems to be quite satisfied with the lack of major adjustments and changes in the work he is responsible for, and his expression has changed from nervousness at the beginning to relief now. After nearly half a year of upgrading the version of the operating system, several sets of operating systems that she was originally responsible for maintaining have been classified and merged into larger system software. She herself is not able or willing to undertake the further development of the new system, and she has no business tasks to use system maintenance at all. It has become more and more detached from the programmer's job to the role of office clerk.

In this regard, after Director Liu Zheng talked to her several times, he had no choice but to hand over the clerical work within the information center to her. Now, her business responsibilities are classified into the hardware management group, and Qi Jingtao can only arrange it like this.

Wu Hongwei worked a year later than Qi Jingtao and was also an undergraduate student majoring in computer science. His current job is to assist Huang Yunshen, Zhang Hong, and Li Li in the daily maintenance of the system, which is very similar to Qi Jingtao's original job. The new system can't stand up, so I have to assist the backbone of the business that can withstand it. It seems to be very busy and very important, but in fact, there is no substantive technical business, and more time is spent on business departments to do maintenance work. Now that he is in the hardware management group, after listening to Qi Jingtao's work arrangement, he seems to be relieved that he has no opinion on arranging him to be mainly responsible for the daily management of the equipment.

Chen Yanan drank saliva, looked up at Qi Jingtao and said calmly: "Qi Gong, my work is what I used to do, and it is all the daily affairs within the department. The preliminary review of the newly added computer equipment plan is divided into three steps, and I am responsible for collecting and sorting out the procurement plan reported by each department, and the three of us are responsible for going to the site to investigate the demand situation according to the time on the job, and how do you arrange the equipment selection?

"This, for the time being, is not arranged, according to the original way of implementation, after Xiao Wu establishes the computer equipment file, we will sort out an investigation report, and submit it to the information center for discussion and implementation. Now, the selection of computer equipment of the group company is too arbitrary, and we have some brands on the market, which are very troublesome to use and maintain, and the clutter also affects the corporate image. My suggestion is that for computers, the initial screening should not exceed five alternative brands, preferably two brands of desktops and servers, and three brands of laptops. Printers, copiers, fax machines, UPS power supplies and other related equipment, preliminary screening of no more than three standby brands. In the future, when we first review the equipment procurement plan, we will not specify a specific brand in the procurement plan, but only give professional and specific configuration requirements and shape requirements according to the actual business needs of the application department, and estimate the general procurement budget. We don't care which of the alternative brands the material company ultimately procures, that is not what we should interfere with, and we can't interfere with. Qi Jingtao said his initial idea.

"What are the criteria for equipment selection?" Wu Hongwei asked.

"The upgrading of computer equipment is very large, the latest and most advanced models of computers appear on the market, and the initial equipment price is very expensive, which is called seafood price in the industry. The latest configuration of computer equipment, I recommend, in general, do not consider buying. At most, you can buy the ones that were listed half a year ago, and in half a year, the price has dropped very much.

We're all computer professionals, and you all know that. In terms of the actual use within our group company, except for a small number of computer equipment that is particularly needed, the hardware requirements of computers are actually very ordinary. It can meet the needs of business applications. I suggest that the selection should be based on a principle, not to fall behind in three years, and not to be eliminated in five years, how about it?"

"How can this principle be determined?"

"The hardware configuration of computer equipment is always more and more advanced, and at the same price, the one who buys later should generally be more advanced than the one who buys first. You can understand that the Pentium chip has only been out for a few years. I remember it was in '94 that I started buying Pentium chips on the market, right? At that time, I was still in college, and now, how many new models have appeared? And what about the software we use now? Even if it's a network version, as long as it's a computer with a 486 or higher, it will work well. Many computers on early industrial control equipment, the software they use can only run on 286 and 386 computers. ”

"Isn't it, there is such a strange thing?" Chen Yanan pouted and said.

"Hehe, Sister Chen, you take the time to go to the re-baking factory, find their equipment administrator Lao Chang, and let him take you to see it, this is the case with their thirteen industrial control computers. Also, there is also this situation in the power department and the silk workshop, before the industrial control software is updated, you must ensure that they have spare 386 grade old computer equipment, otherwise, there will be a big problem. ”

"Shout, there is such a thing. The old computer models of 286 and 386 have long been eliminated from the market. What if those old equipment are damaged and the spare parts can't be bought?" Wu Hongwei asked curiously.

"What do you say?" Qi Jingtao asked rhetorically.