On 3/16/12 20:04 , John C Klensin wrote: > Note too that, if the company sends only five technical people > and concludes that it doesn't suffer harm from that small a > number, the odds of getting back up to 10 if the experiment is > terminated and those five sales/market types disappear is just > about zero, at least until the economy improves considerable. > > Scale and juggle the figures as you like, this is not a > zero-risk experiment. You know nothing about marketing budgets. > john >