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Re: Gmail for students and IMAP
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:25:06 -0400
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:18:43 PDT, Greg Francis said:
Actually, I believe that organizations do choose the wrong solution depending on who made the decision and how different constituencies within the organization have evaluated it.
Yes - but unless you have a *really* stupid decision maker, they chose what looked like the best choice at the time, based on their criteria. You right-source your mail service, you right-source your police coverage, you right-source your building-and-grounds crew, you right-source your your database vendor, you right-source your... you get the idea. My complaint is with the *buzzword* "right-sourced", which doesn't actually add any information over "out/in/open/closed-sourced". There's two basic cases: 1) It may not *matter* in the context of the discussion whether the decision to outsource or not was, in hindsight, the best. In that case, you can just leave it as "we outsourced" and leave "right-sourced" out. 2) It *may* matter if it was a good idea (for instance, in this case, if there was some relevant issue with subpoenas). In this case, there's two sub-cases: a) It in fact worked. You can leave it as "we outsourced" and have an implicit "and it worked" (see below). b) It in fact failed, at which point (since the failure is pertinent), you really owe the listener "we outsourced, and encountered XYZ". Note that in no case does 'right-sourced' by itself add any pertinent information to the discussion. Another thing to think about - if "right-sourced" is not merely a content-free buzzword, why does nobody ever say "we wrong-sourced"?
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- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc. VP IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Joel Rosenblatt (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Adam Nave (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Vik Solem (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Dergenski, Todd A. (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Jeffrey I. Schiller (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Valdis Kletnieks (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Joel Rosenblatt (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Greg Francis (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Sauvigne, Craig M (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Valdis Kletnieks (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Jesse Thompson (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc of IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Tonkin, Derek K. (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc of IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Zach Jansen (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Morrow Long (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Paul Keser (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP Cal Frye (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc. VP IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
- Re: Gmail for students and IMAP James M. Dutcher - Assoc. VP IS/IT & CIO (Jul 29)
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