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.