To a certain extent I would agree with Kurt. You really never know what kind of attention those internal operations will be given by 3rd party providers, regardless of what they tell you they are going to do.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is Exchange Doomed? It is indeed more complicated than that, but it still was a large part of it. Email management and other IT functions are overhead, to be sure, but I think it's a grave mistake to put so much internal process into the hands of outsiders, for many reasons. Kurt On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 13:06, Michael B. Smith <mich...@owa.smithcons.com> wrote: > > well, i think that both you and i know that it wasn't really that simple (in > regards to the auto industry). > > insofar as pharma is concerned - if someone else can take a business > requirement and do it better, cheaper, faster than you can - i think you > should let them do it. > ________________________________________ > From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:02 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Is Exchange Doomed? > > 2009/6/25 Michael B. Smith <mich...@owa.smithcons.com> > > > > GSKs business is pharma (and I bet using that word will cause this email to > > be blocked by some people). They develop, pipeline, and market drugs. Not > > email. Not collaboration software. > > > > IT, other than IT that helps them develop, pipeline, and market drugs isn't > > their core competency. Let someone who does it well do it for them. > > That philosophy is what got the US auto industry in heaps of trouble. > "We design and assemble cars, we don't make car parts" is not a viable > business model. > > Kurt > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ �� �� �� �� �� �� > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja������������������������~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ �� �� �� �� �� �� > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja������������������������~ > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
