Last nite, wifey asked me to help her to prepare some simple network diagram for her proposal to this one partner. She had a meeting in the morning with this partner’s principal consultant (they are one of the software developers if I’m not mistaken) on the hardware and setup requirement that wifey’s company need to propose for this partner’s Business to Customer (B2C) online solutions. Basically this partner main intention is to reduce the amount of servers at their client site when providing their solutions. No problem with that but then when wifey blurt out the requirements and the must have components in her proposal, I start to think that this requirement is more on cost cutting measures in order to maximize this partner’s profit..

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