On Mar 10, 2007, at 12:26 AM, Ron Hawkins wrote:
Ed,
I'm talking companies that measure their profits in USD$ with 9
zeroes. I'm
talking 100s of Terrabytes. I'm talking Disaster Recovery of 1000s
of km.
There are some itsy bitsy accounts mixed in with the larger ones,
but the
shared resources, premises and infrastructure improves the costs of
goods so
that the outsourcer can take their margin and the customers are
still better
off.
Bruce Hewson's example is an interesting one, where a number of
company
owned Data Centres around the world compete for each country's
operations -
perhaps it could be called near-sourcing.
Ron
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I will bow to your experience however I would wonder if the above
examples you site are US or EUR . The politics in the US (or Canada)
(in most cases) are nothing to sneeze at. I have zero knowledge of
our european friends.
I would guess possibly that Bruce's example might be Australian so if
that is the case then its another mindset. When it comes down to it,
it is probably a case of nationality issue(s) as well of internal
politics.
Ed
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