01/15/2002 Archived Entry: "Lease rollovers"

What exactly do I mean when I say "lease rollovers"? I'm glad you asked.

A big task for the past several months has been the changing out of computers whose leases are up. In order to save a large amount of money, all of the computers at my company are leased. Through a chance arrangement of the lease scheduling, a frightening number of leases must be changed out between December and March. By "a frightening number" I mean "greater than one thousand". The team we have on this project consists of precisely four people, including myself. We figured when we started that if we each did twenty computers per day, starting six weeks before we actually started, that we'd only be a month late on finishing.

Add into this the simultaneous Windows 2000 deployment, and add onto THAT the "We're going to use this opportunity to make certain that every single computer's software load is in full license compliance!" effort, and we're realistically deploying two, sometimes three computers per day per person.

So, lease rollovers are taking old computers whose leases are up and swapping them with shiny new computers on fresh leases. Then, we do the whole thing over again when these leases are up in two or three years or something.

Bleah.

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