And the more bandwidth a company has, the more important the network becomes and the lower corporate tolerance falls for any kind of perceived performance degradation. As a result, bandwidth technologies have usually been deployed slowly and carefully. With so many baubles within reach, surely even the most cautious IS manager would buy some of them. Enterprises and IS managers just decided that the advantages did not outweigh the costs in training, disruption, dollars and risk. At the time, we didn't notice that the Internet has several traits Applications that make money get more appreciation than those that save money.
Employees come to the Internet knowing what to expect and how to navigate it.
The Internet is also reasonably compatible with most internal computing environments, especially as more and more companies begin to build their own networks around Internet protocols. They ran point to point. The Internet is more like a door that opens to several environments at once, including development, procurement, marketing and outsourcing. A single bandwidth upgrade buys improved access to all those corporate functions simultaneously. Perhaps the biggest difference between the apps we saw and the one we didn't is that the Internet addresses all constituencies.