On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:29:03 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Let me tell you what just happened here.
> 
> First, somebody from HQ sends me an email asking for the service code on
> our Dell server or something. So I tell him. Then he replies saying "OK,
> I'm gonna update the service contract on that. Say, by the way, how are
> you doing for servers anyway? Need more, need to consolidate, need more
> horsepower, etc?"
> 
> I nearly fell off my chair...
> 
> And then of course, I realised that nobody's offering to *pay* for more
> gear, they're just asking if I'd *like* more gear. ;-)

Tell them that you'd certainly like to discuss the needs in your office, 
then do an assessment of what would make things *better* and start 
prioritising the needs.

With a new IT staff at HQ, perhaps some things will improve.  It can't 
hurt to ask, but approach it seriously.

Jim

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