Rich Teer wrote: >On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Ian Collins wrote: > > > >>Can't a budget be assigned to a project within Sun and that budget >>managed by one or more of the Sun employees on the OGB? >> >> > >We'd already thought of that. :-) > >The bottom line is that no, Sun can't allocate funds to a 3rd party >that exercises control over it. Something about accountablity to >shareholders, etc. > > > But it could allocate funds an internal project, managed by a Sun employee (the OGB secretary?) who could handle the disbursements. If the will is there, there is always a way!
The last time I had to travel for a client, I simply converted the cost into hours and billed for the time. Perhaps something similar could be done for non-Sun employees? Ian