[90] in Resnet-Forum
Re: convenience versus business (Re: Why?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Wed Dec 1 18:21:33 1993
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 15:04:21 -0800
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Pete Bronder <pb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu> sez
> Gee, I guess I gave the obvious reasons of preformance and
>convienience and not the busine$$ reasons that were requested. I
>suggest that in searching for financial justifications you then think
>like a business and not an educational institution.
But even in an educational instution, not a business, don't you have competing
demands on where the institution's money will be spent? No doubt things are
different between state-supported schools and private ones, but even then...
If the cost of residential networking is insignificant we can all have it;
if it clearly pays for itself we can all have it; but if it's a significant
expense that has to compete with other demands for funding then it becomes
a political issue, if not a business one.
