I am not taking about a big imaginary company. I am taking about NSI and this specific case.
Regards, as On 29 Mar 2012, at 00:55, Joseph Snyder wrote: > I agree, but in a big company it generally would cost at least 10s of > thousands of dollars just for training alone. The time away from the phones > that would have to be covered would exceed that. Let's say you had 8000 phone > staff and they were getting $10/be and training took an hour. That is 80k > coverage expenses alone. For a large company I would expect a project budget > of at least 250k minimal. And probably more if the company exceeds 50,000 > employees. > > Arturo Servin <arturo.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another reason to not use them. > > Seriusly, if they cannot expend some thousands of dollars (because it > shouldn't be more than that) in "touching code, (hopefully) testing that > code, deploying it, training customer support staff to answer questions, > updating documentation, etc." I cannot take them as a serious provider for my > names. > > Regards, > .as > > On 28 Mar 2012, at 21:16, John T. Yocum wrote: > > > > > > > On 3/28/2012 12:13 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > >> I'm not convinced. What you mention is real, but the code they need is > >> little more than a regular expression that can be found on Google and a > >> 20-line script for testing lames. And a couple of weeks of testing, and > >> I think I'm exaggerating. > >> > >> If they don't want to offer support for it, they can just > put up some > >> disclaimer. > >> > >> regards, > >> > >> Carlos > >> > >> > >> On 3/28/12 3:55 PM, David Conrad wrote: > >>> On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > >>>> I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but, c'mon. For a provisioning > >>>> system, an AAAA record is just a fragging string, just like any other > >>>> DNS record. How difficult to support can it be ? > >>> > >>> Of course it is more than a string. It requires touching code, > >>> (hopefully) testing that code, deploying it, training customer support > >>> staff to answer questions, updating documentation, etc. Presumably Netsol > >>> did the cost/benefit analysis and decided the potential increase in > >>> revenue generated by the vast hordes of people demanding IPv6 (or the > >>> potential lost in revenue as the vast hordes transfer away) didn't > >>> justify the > expense. Simple business decision. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> -drc > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > That's assuming their system is sanely or logically designed. It could be a > > total disaster of code, which makes adding such a feature a major pain. > > > > --John > >