Whoops.. I missed the point of the earlier thread of conversation, which was that corporate users are largely untrained when it comes to that big white brick on their desktop. Following the model I outlined in my previous post, you could conceivably ignore the cost of re-training, or at least reduce it by a bunch. Cost could be recovered quicker, or it wouldn't require you to reduce your staff, etc. Conversely, if you took the time to train users in this transition, they'd end up being more productive anyway. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ The hardness of the butter / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ is proportional to the \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) softness of the bread. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011110/e14501c1/attachment.pgp