On Dec 11, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Michael Zimmermann wrote: > And in this way they fail to upgrade their most valuable resource - > they fail to educate, train and teach their own employees
Indeed. However, if your business isn't related to timekeeping and you need a dedicated high quality timekeeping device it'd be insane to take away time from your employees to work with that rather than to work with, well, your business! To take the CCTV example, you want your computer people working on - learning about - algorithms to store and process the image/video data (or whatever the innovation is in that area) -- not "time keeping". In my startup[1] we're building a lot of "hard stuff" that similar companies typically get from a vendor. If it's core to what we do then we want to have something we can innovate on rather than just use. But for example system management and monitoring is not what we do - we just use it, so we use puppet, munin and nagios to look after our servers. And if we needed a high precision timekeeping device (better than just running ntpd on a few boxes), we'd not get out the soldering iron on company time; we'd get the company checkbook and give money to Meinberg. - ask [1] http://www.yellowbot.com/ -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/ _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
