On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 18:18, Shayne Lebrun wrote: > Yes, he's probably padding his estimates. No, it's not evil or > unreasonable. It's far better to highball your time estimates, and not have > to use it all, then to lowball them, and come up against problems.
That's some heavy padding going on. It's not unreasonable to pad a little sometimes, but not when the padding is going into a cost-benefit analysis as this appears to be doing. Some sort of range and probability would be better. > That way, on the one day that the mail server DOES blow up, and it takes him > 8 hours to rebuild everything, he's covered. He doesn't have an angry CEO > yelling at him 'I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS LINUX SHIT DIDN'T HAVE DOWNTIME!' Or his padding just wastes company money by making them buy Puremessage when they didn't need to, the server will still blow up when it wants to, it will possibly still be linux based too, as Puremessage runs on linux, solaris, freebsd, hp-ux, and aix. The only reason I can figure for so much padding is that he's trying to win the segway in the puremessage referral competition :))) -- Yorkshire Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
