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 <[email protected]> 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
>
>
