Brian Mathis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Giovanni P. Tirloni tirloni@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
The better solution would be to make sure you are prepared for when the hardware does fail. Inform the client that you understand that
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This is by far the best approach if you want to bring them along. It has to be THEIR decision, so the best way to get them to make that decision is to sit back and say "OK, if you don't want to upgrade that is fine, but we still have to make sure we are prepared for when that hardware fails, so here is what we'll do ..."
That will probably scare the crap out of them enough to change their minds :-)
<snip> Got it: what you need to do is set up a meeting to prepare a disaster recovery plan. Most business have, or are willing to look at them (at least post-Katrina). Make sure that they know just how *long* it will take to bring new systems online if there's a fire, or flood, or hurricane, or twister....
Then bring up the age of the servers and maintenance. As part of the plan, of course, spec out replacement hardware, and any performance increases it would bring....
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