Conference taveng::bagels

1005.0. "Dan Infante Memo" by ICS::WAKY (Onward, thru the Fog...) Thu Nov 29 1990 19:22

Moderator -

Do you have any feedback/insight as to how this will affect Bagels?  I just
got it mailed to me on a very general distribution (I am not a CC Mgr or
Systems Mgr or anything...).





From:	NAME: Dan Infante                   
	FUNC: IM&T HQ                         
	TEL: 273-5464         <INFANTE.DAN AT A1 AT CORA @ CORE>
Date:	21-Nov-1990
Subject: REGARDING NOTES FILES
                                                  

                    ****** THIS MEMO IS FROM DAN INFANTE ******
      
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      Some background on notes usage:
        
      Each and every notes conference runs on a computer owned by a cost 
      centermanager.  It is the responsibility of the cost center manager to 
      ensure that Digital's assets within his or her cost centers are being 
      efficiently and effectively used. 
        
      . Basically, there are two kinds of computer conferencing (notes files): 
      technical/business and non-technical/business.
        
      Technical/business notes files are used extensively in support of the 
      companies business -- product development, strategic collaboration, 
      business conferencing, reduce time to market, and shorten problem 
      resolution time, business planning, etc. These are clearly valid reasons 
      to encourage conferencing/notes file use as a productivity tool.
        
      Non-technical/business notes files are those covering personal 
      interests.  These files have grown to unreasonable levels and in many 
      incidences does not contribute to our productivity objectives.  This 
      type of use is consuming valuable network capacity and consuming 
      disk/storage space.  Both of these are increasing costs to the company.  
      
      . All cost center managers and system managers must monitor 
      non-technical / business notesfiles.  Effective immediately, I am 
      instructing all IM&T managers and system managers not to back up 
      non-technical business related notesfiles.  Additionally, they are to 
      cut back on capital required for notes access and monitor the 
      optimization of their computer capital.
        
      Our Corporate Security and Personnel policies are very clear and my 
      expectations are that our Cost Center Managers will comply with their 
      managerial responsibility.   


        Regards,
        Dan

The impression that I got from a recent discussion in MODERATORS is that this
memo is completely out of line with corporate policy concerning NOTES.  It seems
reasonable that any attempt to implement such a policy be fought.  In any case,
Dan Infante only has power over IM&T (read MIS and DIS installations) and can't
set policy for machines maintained by other organizations.

I don't know how TAVENG system management will view such a memo (though I hope
it is with disdain  8^{).

Gav

    Well notesfiles such as the ELVIS one certainly are a waste of
    time-resources, etc.  But anything that has any connection with valuing
    differences such as BAGELS should not be a target for non-backups, i.e.
    if systems go down-it's-just-too-bad.
    
    --David