From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 10:44:30 EST
It's a bit easier in a commercial environment. Usually you can
calculate a dollar value per minute of downtime due to a problem that
could have been prevented by a proper test procedure. For instance,
here, we have SLAs with our customers and downtime results in fees we
have to pay the customers.
Davies Sue wrote:
> Thank you to everyone who has replied I'm beginning to think it's
> still the dark ages here. They have recently spent millions on this
> Social Services system but have consistently stonewalled over the
> money for a second hand machine so we can try the oracle patching and
> OS upgrades without endangering what is supposed to be a vital
> system. Hopefully I will be able to persuade him that it is common to
> have some kind of test environment and that not spending the £3k I'm
> after will be false economy in the long run.
>
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>
> Many Thanks
>
>
>
> Suzanne Davies
>
> Technical Support Officer
>
> Civic Centre
>
> Wood Lane
>
> Dagenham
>
> Essex
>
> RM10 7BY
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>
>
> 020 8227 2737
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