I've got to defend management here. IME, they DO ask for evaluations,
reports, executive summaries, the works. But they only ask it for the
short list of products after an initial culling, often only between the
two or three finalists. How many commercial enterprise backup systems
are there on
Nice post Kevin.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote:
I've got to defend management here. IME, they DO ask for evaluations,
reports, executive summaries, the works. But they only ask it for the
short list of products after an initial culling, often only
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Trouble is management these days in a lot of places doesn't know enough
to make a decision other than on a cost or name basis. You'd expect if a
person was unsure, they'd ask for a walkthrough or a synopsis, maybe
with an extended trial period -- not
I have got a lot of convincing to do.
:-(
Will try my best.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Jon Ingason jon.inga...@sentor.se wrote:
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Scott Lambert skrev:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:00:21PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
I agree for the most part of
Frank Sweetser wrote:
Because many mangers, used to dealing with and fighting over budgets 7 out
of
8 hours a day, tend to equate cost with value. They're used to paying
more to
get what they want, so assume that if they're not paying more, whatever
they're getting must not be what they
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:00:21PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
I agree for the most part of what you said but when *we* (our team) is
competing with other teams in the firm to design and implement our
solution we also want management to take us seriously. Most of our MBA
management like names with
Alan Brown wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Mag Gam wrote:
It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.
My manager would freak if she sees this...
Given that packages with equivalent functionality to Bacula run to
at
least $30k, why would she freak?
Because many
James Harper wrote:
Alan Brown wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Mag Gam wrote:
It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.
My manager would freak if she sees this...
Given that packages with equivalent functionality to Bacula run to
at
least $30k, why would she freak?
Dan Langille wrote:
James Harper wrote:
Alan Brown wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Mag Gam wrote:
It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.
My manager would freak if she sees this...
Given that packages with equivalent functionality to Bacula run to
at
least $30k, why
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Scott Lambert skrev:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:00:21PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
I agree for the most part of what you said but when *we* (our team) is
competing with other teams in the firm to design and implement our
solution we also want
We are planning to implement bacula at one of our major manufacturing
plants. Is there a professional version of this product or something
similar to it with a different name. Our storage engineering team is
in the process of writing proposals for various solutions but they are
hesitant to use
It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.
My manager would freak if she sees this...
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, C M Reinehr c...@amsent.com wrote:
On Mon 19 January 2009 12:08, Mag Gam wrote:
We are planning to implement bacula at one of our major manufacturing
On Mon 19 January 2009 13:57, Mag Gam wrote:
It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.
My manager would freak if she sees this...
Can't help you with that! (You'll have to take that up with Kern Sibbald. )
It is, of course, open source, so I suppose you could repackage
I suspect it's more because it's not a household name. As a term, bacula
is really no worse than Windows or Yahoo or Google. People just
aren't used to it.
In marketing, there is a rule: a customer must have heard of a product
seven times before it becomes familiar and is considered
On 2009.01.19. 22:11, C M Reinehr wrote:
On Mon 19 January 2009 13:57, Mag Gam wrote:
It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.
My manager would freak if she sees this...
Can't help you with that! (You'll have to take that up with Kern Sibbald. )
It is, of course,
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Kern sent an e-mail recently about the professional services arm of the
company that would be releasing software from Bacula Systems or
something like that.
I would respectfully say that if a company is deciding what backup
software to use based on
I guess this is more of a marketing questionI meant no disrespect
for the product. Overall, it seems like a killer backup application.
I would respectfully say that if a company is deciding what backup
software to use based on the name of the software (Bacula isn't an
overly silly name --
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