thoughts from home

Well I met with the chap below again this week. One thing that I learned from him is that charisma sells, and sometimes you just don't take no for an answer.

Unfortunately, like many Americans, he had no sense that business models can be different in other places in the world. His business is based around his company hosting their messaging data stores on their premises. This might be ok if they were close to therest of the network and there were no data traffic costs but this is not the case.

They are hosting from New York state, in the US. From the customer point of view this may make very little difference at all, however for the ISP it take email from being a (relatively) low cost type of data and turns it into international data traffic which is much more expensive. Not to mention the effect of what happens it the link is unavailable to the US. Pahh!!Not going to happe with that model. Not from Australian ISP's anyway.

In any case he was still very compelling and I would like to see a product like his take off, particularly since it is the same idea that I am pushing for work next year.

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I am sick at the moment, at home. My head is all stuffed up and my nose if dribbling like a tap. I don't like taking time off from work but sometimes it is just pointless to try and think with a head full of snot.