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- From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
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- Subject: Re: "User firms plagued by LAN money pits"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.230852.363@novell.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:08:52 GMT
- References: <199301080809.AA14075@tuna.wang.com> <1993Jan8.143130.9443@sci34hub.sci.com>
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- In article <1993Jan8.143130.9443@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
- >In article <199301080809.AA14075@tuna.wang.com> IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("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... :-) ).
-
- You'll get no flame from me as I was one of those slaves you mentioned (all be
- it a Physics lab slave). I had a great time working for peanuts. I considered
- the opertunity a blessing. How often do you get to play with Michaelson/Moreley
- apparati for free? ;-)
-
- dks.
-