Yes, I realize that there is a benefits as well as cost side of this. So
then the question becomes whether you can lower the costs sufficiently
for the benefits to outweigh the costs. That in turn assumes that
benefits and costs can be quantified in some way. Has anyone ever done this?
My gut feeling is that it is easier to quantify the costs (or at least
get an estimate on the lower bound of those costs) then to quantify the
benefits. After all, I can say that depending on the environment, I will
probably have to spend at least so and so much money on hardware,
software licensing, installation, support, training, etc.
Getting a dollar amount for the benefits seems to be much more difficult
since in my mind those benefits are much less well-defined.
Christoph
Greg Woodhouse wrote:
How about lowering the barriers to entry? There is a cost as well as a
benefit side, too
--- Christoph Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What's the way out of this conundrum?
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Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would
not have been made."
-- Albert Einstein
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