[1298] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: impact of settlements on provision of free services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lixia Zhang)
Sun Sep 1 17:05:33 1991
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1991 14:05:03 PDT
From: Lixia Zhang <lixia@parc.xerox.com>
Reply-To: lixia@parc.xerox.com
To: "Stan Hanks (bcm)" <stan@karazm.math.uh.edu>
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com, stan@karazm.math.uh.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 29 Aug 1991 21:24:12 PDT
> Barry Shein partially hit on this. The real problem isn't budgeting
> (although it's a large part of it at this point), its that we're not
> dealing with Pervasive Technologies. Oh sure, *WE* have been doing FTP
> and mail and all sorts of stuff for over 10 years. But how many organization
> can you name where same is true for the senior management? How about the
> bean counters?
I think it is everyone's responsibility to make senior management be
aware of the importance of network connection and usage, making them
understand that the network is just as important as telephones and
power in today's life.
And therefore even the bean conters have to budget for network usage,
at the same time when they budget phone and power bills.
> One of the big things I do is work to transfer "advanced" technologies
> into places where they are not common. And how you define "advanced" is
> all relative to where you're sitting -- FTP is pretty low-tech, but not
> if you're still primarly doing batch processing on MVS/TSO where the
> concept of peer-to-peer cooperating processes is pretty novel.
I agree that, by today, data networks and their usages are not not as
popular as telephones, but they are penetrating into our daily life at
an ever accelerating speed.
Yes there will be obstacles in convincing the management that network
is a good thing to spend money on. But
> Anyway, this is *WAY* off the original point,
the discussion is about how the bill should be computed, not whether
you can get away from paying it.
Lixia
