David, that is pretty cynical view of "corporation" that bears little resemblance to small business, which is the predominant employer throughout America and frequent customer of the rural WISPs. These small business don't like being force fed and demand value for their buck.
And in today's world, at least from the operator perspective from which I drive my livelihood, the concept of ROI is not a catch phrase; it is a genuine matter of survival. Respectfully, Patrick J. Leary Chief Evangelist, Alvarion, Inc. Executive Committee Member, WCA/LEA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 760.494.4717 Cell: 770.331.5849 Fax: 509.479.2374 -----Original Message----- From: David P. Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:44 PM To: evilbunny; John Foust Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: [BAWUG] Greetings BAWUG (A BWA advocate hopes he is welcomed ) At 01:00 AM 12/3/2002 +1100, evilbunny wrote: >ROI = milk the corporate customers... everyone knows there's virtually >no money in home users, they want everything for nothing... unless >you're super large and have economies of scale... or reselling >someone's product that does, there's no money in it... Which is why you want solutions the home users can manage themselves, and deploy themselves. These are called "consumer products", which Sony, for example makes lots of money on. I always find "there's no money in it..." to mean that the seller can't conceive of meeting the customers needs, and instead wants to force feed the customers stuff they don't really want. Corporate customers are used to being force-fed, will spend lots of money on stuff because budget size = status and ego. Such customers are non-economic, though they like to use words like ROI to impress their boss that they aren't wasting money (which they often are - remember all the money spent on Y2K "fixes"). -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the originator of the message. This footer also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Alvarion Inc. Scanning of this message and addition of this footer is performed by SurfControl SuperScout Email Filter software in conjunction with virus detection software. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
