Hurrah

As I've said before, no decision is taken lightly at my workplace. However, one that I have been waiting on for several months has almost been made.

I'll try not to give away too much in case I'm breaching the official secrets act (I can't remember whether or not I signed it when I joined) so I'll use some pseudonyms where appropriate so that no-one will know the exact details of what I'm talking about:

For some time now we have been working with a computer system (Lets call it Athens). Now when Athens first came along it was arguably one of the best of its kind. It had many features that its competitors lacked and it was easy to use yet sophisticated enough to meet your demands.

However for a variety of reasons, Athens is no longer a viable option and so for some time now we have been pushing to move to a new system (Lets call it B~)

B~ is very similar to Athens (mainly as some of its features were lifted from it) and would require minimal retraining. It is also the industry standard (and has been for about five years). However despite all the positive reasons for going with it, the decision to do so has dragged on forever.

Even now, no definitive decision has been made. It is going to given a short trial by a select few to check it works OK (Apparently being the industry standard / market leader is not enough assurance).

But even with this not being the definitive answer, at least we're moving in the right direction now. Good job we don't do anything important though.