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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Kashish King who wrote (45500)1/25/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 58324
 
>>As far as PCs are concerned, multimedia content from raster graphics to audio files do require a lot of bandwidth, however, you are working locally off of your hard-disk from an archive located on a server. If you aren't using a networked version control system then you are not managing your assets correctly and if you don't have automatically scheduled backups you are simply asking for a disaster. No self-respecting company should be relying on individual backup using CLICK...CLICK...CLICK... (a.k.a. Zip) drives and no self-respecting IS manager would consider it.<<

Rod -

Eve did not say that the Zips were used for backup.

Your statements show that you make a whole lot of assumptions about the environment in which she is working, and then declare that her company is "not managing its assets correctly" because they don't do things a particular way.

As a networking professional for many years, I can tell you that there are many self-respecting companies which are too small even to have an IS manager. Not every company needs a networked version control system, either. Companies network needs depend, in large part, upon what those companies do. No solution works for everyone.

I agree with you completely that modern computing is completely possible without Zip drives. They may never become a standard feature on all computers. But that doesn't mean no one has any use for them, even in networked environments.

- Allen
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