On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Smelly Pooh wrote:
> In reply to Martin Donlon's flatulent wordings,
> > Woo! Baton down the hatches. The Irish Times is on Slashdot with an
> > article on Dell, Limerick (we didn't do it).
>> In all fairness, how did they calculate the cost of possible viral infection
> to 12,000 computers to be 14 million? That's more than the cost of the actual
> computers
>
Well i suppose the cost of shipping all the machines back to limerick,
from where they were in europe, the cost of checking 12000 machines, the
cost of the overtime that they will have to pay out to get back on
schedule, the cost of redoing their master images, the cost of checking
the rest of the systems for virii etc.
Reckon that must add up, but 14 mill is still fairly high for a two day
outage.
Dave
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