Cost of IT vs Revenue

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On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 10:36:58AM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> They are free but there is a cost to maintain/host them and you should not
> neglect the server on which you do so.

No kidding.

> > > Whatever happened to 2% of your revenue should be invested in technology?
> > Where the hell did you get that number, and did you wipe it off between
> > pulling it out of somewhere, and putting it on the list?
> 
> Oh, is it higher now?  One can find many references as to how industries
> normally draw budget
> for their various departments, IT included ... here is a sample of that

I made it through two paragraphs before just stopping, and ony half a
paragraph before rolling my eyes.

I allocate funds for the resources I know I'll need, not just toss x% at
new expenses whether they're necessary or not.  Hard drives cycled every
4.5-5 years preemptively, systems replaced every 8-10 years with higher
performance.  Some of us don't actually do the whole, "ZOMG, I need to
reinstall Windows because it feels so slowwwwwwww," nonsense.  I also
buy the highest-spec equipment it's sane for me to afford.  My last CPU
on my own system is a 4960X, which was the best you could get in
enthusiast chips in 2012.  It's due for a replacement within the next
year or so.  I also know that it'l be around $5k to replace.  $8k if
I really splash out on the GPU.  But that's every 8-10 years.

The stuff you just pulled out...hell, it has 'executive summary', so I'm
just going to tell you this is for really big businesses, and it scales
like hell for small houses.

Big companies do a -lot- of stupid things which defy common sense at
smaller scale.

> If this is not a factual/real expectation, I have been privileged to have
> worked with reasonable budgets for companies large and small.

As have I.  I've also had the misfortune of dealing with some companies
with really questionable beaurocracies in place.  There's definitely a mix
out there.

> Mark, no offense, none of these are "applications" in the sense that they
>
> are used to run an entire business, they are, what in my neck of the
> woods are called "plug ins, patches, add-on, extensions ..." ...

Oh, so the credit card processing which runs 24/7/365 at the heart of
someone's business isn't required to be enterprise-grade, doesn't have to
be stable, and is totally going to be fine to just quit working mid-batch
at 3am on any random day?  Who knew?!?!?  I was under the apparently
mistaken impression they'd want to keep getting revenue...  Silly me.

> Why would anyone update just for the sake of spending money?
> 
> Where/how did I suggest anyone should do that?

When you brought the idiotic non-scaling 2% into it as a matter of 'fact'.

Dude, you just lost the right to be taken seriously.  You are officially
no longer worth my time in this discussion.

/thread, or at least my part in it.  I've had enough, and have better
things to do.

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