Telecommuting is working out pretty well for us.  I have a client in S.
Carolina for which we are doing a lot of work, both maintenance and new
development, on an ongoing basis.  Almost everything is done over the net,
I rarely am on site there anymore.

I have just hired a contractor to work on a project for this particular
client.  He is here in my office this week, but most of the time he will be
working out of his home and telnetting (using QCTerm) into my HP3K.  There
is little reason for him to be here physically except for a day or two a month.

The fact that the HP3K supports telnet and FTP makes it irrelevant where
the machine is relative to the user.

At 11:38 AM 8/30/2000, Stigers, Greg [And] wrote:
>X-no-Archive:yes
>Is there an larger prevalence of telecommuting among 3000 staff? Is it less
>likely that an IT worker who works on a 3000 will need direct physical
>access to the box, and / or that need can be readily and reliably met by
>someone on site?
>
>If so, what does this say about our platform, and its capabilities?
>
>             SET EXPOSITION TO TRUE
>             IF YOU-COULD-NOT-CARE-LESS
>                GOTO EXIT
>             ENDIF
>Recently, I had to stay home, on the final day of a project, the day our
>customer "went live" with a new system on one coast that had been running in
>parallel to an existing system on the other (which made the day three hours
>longer). Of course, there were questions, things that needed attention and
>examination, and even one mistake that had to be corrected. I wound up over
>the course of that day putting in my eight hours, quite unintentionally, and
>quite unprepared to work from home. The biggest challenge was living with a
>connection at modem speed instead of network speed (while I was using
>QCTerm, I wasn't able to use advanced telnet). But it really went quite
>well, and I've reminded my boss of this more than once.
>
>I couldn't have done it without my HP 3000.
>
>Greg Stigers
>http://www.cgiusa.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Glenn Koster [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:24 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: OT:OT Posts
>
><snip>
>Since I work from the house,
><snip>


Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
http://www.northtech.com/