posted on February 16, 2003 10:10:08 AM new
Major companies and agencies are all setting up alternate sites.
Are we looking in 5 or 6 years at organizations spreading themselves in a network, just like the internet, designed to produce continuity in the face of attack?
Will the huge corporate brag headquarters to show off the wealth be a thing of the past?
Will the march away from urban centers and same industry clusters aided by tele-commuters be accelerated?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/02/16/disaster.center.ap/index.html
It would have huge implications for the real estate market and transportation and data service costs. It would further hurt the airlines that depend on people living in little clumps.
It would mean that after a small town attracted a certain number of industries they would reach a critical size that made them less attractive for another firm to come in.
posted on February 16, 2003 03:30:12 PM new"The alternative site in the western Maryland town of Walkersville was chosen because of its distance from the Washington area, which could be a potential target for terrorism, officials said."
LOL! Because of Bush's continued Bullying and bad mouthing other nations, he's made the entire USA a target for hatred around the world with the center of the bulls-eye Washington D.C.
THIS is what happens when you vote for a Presidential candidate WITH NO FOREIGN DIPLOMACY SKILLS! You get us ALL KILLED!!
posted on February 16, 2003 08:09:05 PM new
That concept has been around for the last 10 to 15 years. many companies started doing it many years ago. Mirosoft uses the concept.
Amen,
Reverend Colin
