Oh, I'm sure a bit of it is also 'not invented here' syndrome; if it was worth using, I'd have thought of it myself.
Or maybe he's just real careful, wants to pay lots of attention to it. Or, he's hoping to scare people away. This, of course, is when you mention that you can have it done in a day for four hundred bucks. :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Yorkshire Dave > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:17 PM > To: spamassassin list > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] how much work to install and maintain > > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
