On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
BTW - if there is an absolute right answer, it's this:
Don't choose. Instead, get quotes for both options, present both options to
management with an explanation of the difference in risk. Describe the level
of diligence you've put into assessing the difference in risk (reaching out to
folks on LOPSA, researching internet, etc), describe what (if anything) you
could do to get more information with more diligence, but ultimately, you're
trying to predict the future of your own solution having problems, and it's
impossible to get a 100% accurate assessment. You can only guess. Acknowledge
that a decision must be made based on vague probabilities and guesses, but
there's good reason to believe that the higher cost system probably has lower
risk. And that's all you can do.
Yep, nothing is zero risk and if you try to drive the risk to zero at any cost,
you will spend a fortune and still have risk from things that you didn't think
of.
Management's job is the big picture resoure allocation (for manpower and money)
between things that reduce risk vs things that add services vs saving the money.
As a tech, your job is to help your management make informed decisons.
David Lang
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