The thanks that makes it all worth it
Nov. 4th, 2003 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomSomeone stopped me at LISA2003 (last week in San Diego) to thank me for the tutorial Chris and I taught, and the book we wrote. They said on Jan 1, 2003 they had an outage and they were able to recover 25% sooner because of what we taught at our tutorial.
"So, could you put that in dollar terms?"
He thought for a minute.
"I'd say about a quarter of a million dollars."
When people ask me why I wrote the book, I never have a concise, quick, answer. That's my new answer.
"So, could you put that in dollar terms?"
He thought for a minute.
"I'd say about a quarter of a million dollars."
When people ask me why I wrote the book, I never have a concise, quick, answer. That's my new answer.
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Date: 2003-11-04 04:47 pm (UTC)The quick response
Date: 2003-11-04 04:47 pm (UTC)I mean, just two or three percent would have been fine, really.
If you ever write a second edition, you should put that in the preface.
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Date: 2003-11-04 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-05 01:49 am (UTC)Of course the first time I read that, I thought you meant the other tutorial you two gave...