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On Fri, 25 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: [snip] > Business moves at Internet speeds these days, in case you hadn't noticed. Including going out of bussiness at Internet speeds. > To put it in a way even understandable to techies; > > Collaborrative document, updated and swapped between 4 authors, and > reviewed by two others, widely separated geo-physically. Revised and > rewritten 5 times per day, for a week (Not counting NetMeetings). Trust me, > management does work this way. Servers overloaded, underconfigured, running out of disk space. SMTP poorly suited to file transfer: 35% bandwidth and storage overhead. > Process run-time, with email = 1 week; with FedEx = 1 month. Email spools fill. Process never completes, impacts dozens of other projects, hundreds of other employees. > Process cost (transit only), with email <= $20, with FedEx = $4500 (FedEx = > very happy) Tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity caused by forcing an infrastructure to do what it wasn't designed to do. > Real cost; Deal is blown out because deliverable is three weeks late. > Instant lost revenue. Real cost; Not only is the deal blown, but others too. > > my opinion. > > opinion: invalid. Your analysis: Short sighted. -- The comments and opinions expressed herein are those of the author of this message and may not reflect the policies of the Martin County Board of County Commissioners.
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