From: John Cuccia 

And I was agreeing with you .

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:22:39 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>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
>news:q8aaevkiiu91i6muub1dhtnsk23688bqn0{at}4ax.com...
>> 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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