> I don't *really* believe my next question but ...
> Is an Internet connection as beneficial to the company as the building
> that everyone works in ?
It can be, yes.
> And ... $25,000 is *a lot* of money for a secure connection - when you
> add (or compare) this to the cost of the service, you'd be hard pressed
> to find a commercial (profit generating) reason for such an expensive
> connection. [Or can someone contradict me ?]
Sure. An Internet connection can be justified on a pure return on
investment basis. One example is support. The cost of having a
support technician answer an 800 number support call (phone toll is free to
the caller) and send a diskette via overnight mail is much much higher
than cost of having the customer copy a file from an Internet anonymous FTP
server. It doesn't take long for an anonymous FTP server and Internet
connection to pay for itself. Using the Internet is faster, too.
I also know of cases where business was lost because a vendor couldn't
support a potential customer via the Internet.
$25,000 for a secure Internet connection seems like a bargain to me.
> It's a sad fact that your $25,000 is thought of as part of the Internet
> service cost *not* general security costs for operating at a particular
> site.
> Ian.
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> Ian Marr, Systems Manager, Micrognosis, 63 Queen Victoria St, London, EC4N 4UD
> imarr @
london .
micrognosis .
com +44-71-815-5254
>
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Intel Corporation
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