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The Unified Theory of IT Economics
Posted: 11:52 pm January 29th, 2006	Post a comment IT Business

No "strings" attached And if you don't get the joke then you should really seek a refund from your engineering school. Here, for your Monday reading, is the fundamental unified theory of IT economics when it comes to a hardware purchase of any kind:

CHEAP + FAST != GOOD GOOD + CHEAP != FAST FAST + GOOD != CHEAP

Think about that when you make your infrastructure purchasing decisions.

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Anonymous | January 30th, 2006 at 7:12 am

I have one more..

CHEAP + GOOD + FAST = STOLEN

Terry Michaels | January 30th, 2006 at 8:25 am

Those rules apply on every IT purchase with the exception of Cisco.

Chad | January 30th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

I always learned that the golden rule of any services industry was:

Fast
Cheap
Good

Pick any two . . .

Robert Aitchison | January 30th, 2006 at 1:41 pm

Wouldn’t it be better to express it as “GOOD + FAST =! CHEAP”? (maybe not cause I suck at these kinds of expressions)

Where does the Project Management Triangle fit into this? You can’t change the scope of a project (GOOD) without affecting the schedule (FAST) or resources required (CHEAP)

Chuck | January 30th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

GOOD + CHEAP != DELL

sarahintampa.com | January 30th, 2006 at 10:44 pm

LOL! Exactly!

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