RE: Denial of service

["Biggerstaff, Craig T" <Craig.T.Biggerstaff () usahq unitedspacealliance com>]

I just want to point out, and rail against, the cheapening of the phrase
"mission-critical".  Ever since this phrase was made a
Buzzword-of-the-Month-Club selection by inexplicably popular authors of
management advice, it has become damn near useless.  A company that is
unable to disseminate press releases on its web site is not in any real
sense unable to function, it simply has to revert to the way things were
done five years ago.



-- Craig Biggerstaff

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> From:         David C Niemi[SMTP:niemi () tux org]
> Sent:         Thursday, August 20, 1998 12:55 PM
> To:   firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject:      RE: Denial of service
>
>
> You must work for a bank or a secret agency ;^)  Nowadays almost all large
> organizations and many smaller ones nowadays have web sites that
> management
> considers mission-critical, even if they only provide general information
> to the public.  And a great number of business functions rely on the
> Internet for gathering information and e-mail.  E-commerce per se is just
> one of many extremely valuable services which inherently must rely on the
> Internet.