Colin Paice wrote, in part: >1 minute down, costs $1million >1 day down - we are out of business.
>This was due to fines etc from the stock exchanges, and the cost of >having to buy shares at a potentially higher price. This is the kind of claim that requires analysis. The fines part might be true--but the key word in the second is "potentially". Prices could go lower. So that part clearly isn't solid. Similarly, Allan Staller wrote, in part: >At a relatively small MF shop I used to work at, the cost of downtime >was pegged at 100K/Hour. Again, could be true (though that seems to make the company's revenue $876M, which doesn't sound like a small shop) but where did that number come from? I'm suspicious of almost any number quoted without explanation, in any context. I mean, we all know that 87.3% of statistics are made up on the spot, right? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
