[geeks] Sun SSP monkeying - any SSP 'experts' about?

[Lionel Peterson]

What amazed me was that her entire counter-argument was that customers would
want it...

The company was in the clinical trial IVRS business, and we needed (at the
time) duplicate hard line phone connections (not VoIP) and the telephony cards
were very expensive. To double our hardware investment and maintain a warm
fail-over recovery site was a non-trivial investment.

She just knew that it would look good in a sales brochure...

And of course, I was the problem, because I told her flat out what she
'insisted' we needed was too expensive. She only 'understood' when the head of
the company told her what I said was correct - not that she ever admitted it
to me.

Lionel

> On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 09:37:25 -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Five Nines is a very, very expensive target.
>
> Most people mentioning five nines can't count up to above 10 without
> taking off their socks (yes I'm thinking about the PHBs).
>
>> She didn't understand why it was so expensive.
>
> I've got a very similar T-shirt.
>
>
> --
> Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
> Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
> religious conviction
>  -- Blaise Pascal
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