[LINK] IT can lead to big savings: Tanner
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
brd at iimetro.com.au
Fri Apr 18 18:12:31 AEST 2008
Tom Worthington wrote:
> At 05:56 PM 15/04/2008, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>
>> I would suggest that you probably don't sit at your personal computer
>> 24 hours a day. On what basis would you be prepared to share it with
>> someone else, other than immediate family?...
>
>
> My company web site and education server is provided by a commercial
> company in Sydney and the email on a server in New York run by a
> Melbourne based company. I am more than happy for them to run it on a
> shared system. I use shared online services provided by several other
> companies (I tried out the Google package of services for small
> business but was not entirely comfortable with their "we will do
> everything" approach). It would be sillily for me to run my own
> servers. I have some material on my laptop, but nothing I depend on.
> My laptop was used for presentations at the Open 2020 Summit.
You didn't actually answer my question about sharing your laptop.
Using a shared service from a company that specialises in offering
shared services isn't really equivalent to multiple government
departments sharing another department's services.
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Regards
brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
br at iimetro.com.au
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