As the price of computer hardware
continues to plummet, more and
more contractors are giving in and
buying new machines and software to
help them run their businesses. Worn
down by the media blitz and ad campaigns,
and by the increasing appearance
of "dot com" in the logo of brand
name construction products, even
staunch holdouts have been dragged,
kicking and screaming, into the
Computer Age. They figure that with a
couple of cheap computers and some
software from the trade show, all of
their problems will be solved. In no
time at all, they'll be doing their own
structural engineering, printing out
income statements, designing in 3-D
photo-realism, and teaching their secretaries
to do all those estimates
they've been