NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/sys/novell/11265

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From: [e-mail] (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: "User firms plagued by LAN money pits"
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Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:31:30 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] ("Imaging Club") writes:
>The January 4 issue of the leading Network World newspaper has
>a well-written, detailed story entitled "User firms plagued by LAN
>money pits."  The subtitle reads "Forrester study finds cost of
>local net support eating up corporate cash but offers tips for
>relief."  The article has a graph of annual charges for different
>kinds of support on a 5,000-user network.

This would be a lot more useful if it reviewed a 500 or 1000 user
network; I doubt that there's more than a couple hundred LANs with
5000+ users on them. Those would be Fortune 100 companies and
universities, most likely. The F100 companies can (and most have)
figure out how to support a network efficiently (after all, these
are the support organizations which have been getting cut over the
last few years) within their infrastructure, and the universities
enslave students to do most of their work (boy, if that isn't
flamebait... :-) ). It's the medium-sized networks, say 100 to 2,000
users, that are the most disorganized--big enough to justify one
or two people full-time, but too small to justify the expense of
experienced, trained people.

--
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  [e-mail]   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...