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Re: 10.5 Server sucks, 10.5 sucks

John C. Welch wrote: 
On 03/10/2008 13:42 PM, "John Gonder" <email@hidden> wrote:

Yep. Funny how a company with 15 employees will spend more on furniture than
they will on the business-critical equipment that does far more to make them
their money than the Aeron chairs they sit their behinds in.

If you don't have the money to afford even part - time IT help, then $6K to
get you someone on the phone, or occasionally in house to provide the
expertise you don't have and can't afford is FAR cheaper than a broken
system.

From Laura Chappell's  www.packet-level.com  on her util CD collections, and
otherwise available on her website is a nice ROI xls calculator to show the
cost of a slowdown / break in network services. Or make your own, people X
$/hr combined with percent of time using the app and the delay or downtime.

It's very educational for the beancounters to see, in actual total $$$, the
cost to the organisation of down time, or even a delay of a few seconds in
getting app response over the course of a week. Even a few seconds delay on
web access over the day is a sobering dollar figure.

This is a good part of the business case for infrastructure funding. 

Indeed, and that's a great link too. I see far too many cases where IT
people are really bad at communicating needs in a way that non-IT people
understand.

Actually the issue I run into is "but my buddy" who's a brilliant guitar player, plumber, accountant, lawyer, whatever, says it can be done for a "dollar 2 ninety eight". (To use a phrase from the past.) And then they get to pay for the explanation of why things cost more than trivial amounts to run complicated things. :(

David Ross

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