From: "Geo." 

I agree with you about it needing to be automated somehow, but all I was
trying to say is that a complaint like that is a valid complaint.

Geo.

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:27:57 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >I think a big wig complaining that employees would have to spend hours
> >moving their appointments over to the new system is a valid complaint.
>
> No, that would have to be automated somehow, and done after hours.
> That's how we did it when we moved data from Groupwise and Notes to
> Exchange during our standardization project a few years ago.  The
> moves were scheduled and occurred the night before a new PC was issued
> to users at a site.
>
> Still, it is quite expensive to change systems.  In addition to almost
> 100  personnel at the project's peak, there were substantial training
> costs involved.  Every one of our 12000 employees was required to
> attend an hour-long training session while their new machine (with
> software preinstalled) was being set up for them.  The training
> focused on Outlook, which was new to us at the time.
>
>

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