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Re: TGIF: top 50 stupid technology questions
From: Bruce Speyer (bruce.speyer@medispecialty.com)
Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:18:27 -0500
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At 10:49 AM 7/14/00 -0500, Gene Crick wrote: >
>I'll tell you the two hottest clusters of questions I
>receive from the actual communitites I work with. These center around:
>
>connectivity -
>"how do we assess our current and projected bandwidth needs? How can we
>possibly know what best to choose from a bewildering and constantly
>changing array of choices (xDSL, PRI, T-1, cable, etc.)? How can we
>measure performance to decide where problems lie and improvement is
>needed?" [hardware/software support is usually available; planning and
>concept guidance is hard to fine, frequently biased, and often just wrong]
>
>system administration -
>the never ending story, "Whom/what/how re: hiring and keeping an effective
>sysadmin person or staff", or "should we outsource? if so, to whom?"
>
>I know this isn't exactly what you asked, and I'm not expecting answers.
>But we just completed 30 cities' telecom (community network) plans and
>figured I was share what I felt were some widely prevalent concerns"
>
>best,
>gene
>
>Gene Crick
>Director, TeleCommunity Resource Center (TCRC)
>_________________________________________________________ gcrick@main.org
>_____________________________________________ 512-303-MAIN - fax 303-5472
>_________________________________________________________ gcrick@main.org
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Wow Gene, those are not "dumb user" softball questions that can easily be answered like I was hoping for!!! ;-) These questions are what consultants get the big bucks for.
To answer these questions you have to evaluate current price/performance benefits and future price/performance benefits to evaluate potential return on investment.
A similar type of question could be: should I buy 10 low-end PCs which are pretty darn good these days for $1500 apiece or should I buy one $15K machine that is perhaps four times more powerful then one of these cheaper PCs?
Same with outsourcing, I looked pretty seriously about a year ago at getting a *T3* with backup T1s for our business. Glad I didn't and our servers are co-located now for a lot less cost then keeping them at the office.
The one truth in our technology business is that if you can afford to wait the price will almost certainly go down. I bet we're only a year or two away from the equivalent of fractional-T3 at a very reasonable price.
General answers for your general questions! Regards, Bruce
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Bruce Speyer wrote: >
> > Howdy TechTalk @ OBGYN.net subscribers,
> >
> > It's been a bit quite on this forum after I started moderating it and
> > shutdown all the spam and mis-directed women's health questions. =8-)
> >
> > So I invite you all to post your deepest techie questions & desires to the
> > forum <techtalk@obgyn.net> and you will get a swift reply from our
> "experts".
> >
-- Bruce Speyer, CTO Home of OBGYN.net MediSpecialty.com The Universe of Women's Health 512-835-1111 ext 227 A Physician Directed Network 512-835-6112 fax, 512-632-3455 mobile http://www.obgyn.net EMAIL: bruce.speyer@medispecialty.com
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