[geeks] Bastards! ;^)

[Ken Hansen]

I'll tear apart your questions and answer them one-by-one...

See below...

----- Original Message -----
From: <s at avoidant.org>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Bastards! ;^)


> Just out of curiousity, does the fact that they haven't bought more
> bandwidth mean anything?

Yeah, we saved money ;^) More info below...

> I mean, in the grand scheme of things, another
> $500/month for an additional T1 or an upgrade to a T3 ought to be
> trivial.

Trivial, but not neccessary - if we can get by with one, two is more than we
need...

> Unless there's really no use for public connectivity.

There is *minimal* need for outside resources - we have a trivial web
server/FTP installation, as well as a large need for email service. Our only
business reasons for access to the internet is to either check up on
competition, or to verufy that FedEx shipments were recieved.

> What does your company do that you just have no need for access to
> the information available on the 'net?

See above - we develop and maintain IVR Systems in support of clinical
drug trials for major pharmaceutical companies from around the world. The
most advanced thing we currently offer is web-based reporting for a few
of the IVR Systems we maintain.

IVR = Interactive Voice Response (actually we use touch-tones, but that is
what they are called)

Beyond basic IT needs (software downloads), business intelligence, and
shipment confirmation, the internet offers us very little.

> Personally, I rarely use hardcopy references anymore.

We are essentially paper-less, but this has nothing to do with internet
access.
Word documents don't need to be on a web server to be accessible internally.
;^)

These were all reasonable questions, and I am happy to take the time to
respond (in case the format of my answers *seems* like I am being snippy, I
am not!)

Ken


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