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The Hidden Yet Explosive Cost
There's another hidden, potentially explosive cost: smaller businesses without full-time IT staff, backrelease unsupported Exchange (or none), who end up accessing "in-house" email as POP-mail, storing everything on individual laptops. With attrition, laptops lost, upgrades ..etc.. the potential cost (contractual, legal ..etc) of a company NOT having access to their own communications can be huge.
This is not a hypothetical scenario, I've seen it happen.
Posted by: Zoli Erdos   Posted on: 02/17/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Switched to in-house  xabbo | 02/17/06
Switching to in-house  techotter@... | 02/24/06
The Hidden Yet Explosive Cost  Zoli Erdos | 02/17/06
The Hidden Yet Explosive Cost  thabib_z | 02/17/06
This is the best I have heard so far  Justin James | 02/17/06
Most IT admins don't get overtime  george_ou | 02/17/06
All too true  Justin James | 02/17/06
Overtime?? What's Overtime??  brandonw407@... | 02/21/06
Depends on definition of "IT Admin"  techotter@... | 02/24/06
The monitoring issue  george_ou | 02/17/06
so true  zzz1234567890 | 02/17/06
I wish we could outsource our email  dwjunix | 02/18/06
Nothing to prevent outsourcing  IT Makes Sense | 02/21/06
Waht about sensitivity of content?  thabib_z | 02/17/06
Content thiefs are usually employees  patfett | 02/21/06
The issue of prejudice  george_ou | 02/17/06
lol, same here!  Justin James | 02/17/06
All depends on hiring and promotion practices  george_ou | 02/18/06
email? why?  dahowlett@... ZDNet Moderator | 02/17/06
Further thoughts on hosted service providers vs. traditional outsourcing  dietzen | 02/19/06
Switched back to in-house  emiliosic | 02/21/06
We know our costs and downtime - Sendmail just works  kforgie@... | 02/21/06
Linux vs Windows  patfett | 02/21/06
That's just wrong  george_ou | 02/21/06
Why Exchange?  rmerts@... | 02/21/06
Pay Twice?  law_n_disorder | 02/21/06
cost of staff more than just salary  eloftus@... | 02/22/06
SOP decisions for email  cd2_z | 02/21/06
A small case study  rmeyer@... | 02/21/06
Not as much as you may think...  tygeverink@... | 02/21/06
Email isn't the only story though...  techotter@... | 02/24/06
Outsourcing = 0wned  preacherx | 02/21/06
It will be insane for doing this thing in-house.  cou-cou | 02/21/06
Outsourcing vs In-house  timpin1@... | 02/23/06
Man you hit the nail on the head  george_ou | 02/23/06
A free service isn't a proper comparison  phil wainewright ZDNet Moderator | 02/27/06
Outsourcing SUCKS  admin02 | 02/27/06
more: rest of my message is cut off  admin02 | 02/27/06
true...and  mfahey31@... | 02/26/08

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