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"JMoore" <Scott,
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I remember overharing at an Autodesk University (or OTC)coference some numbers
on how much Fedex makes in a year off of shipping architectural documents. It
is hazy but I beleive Carol Bartz said their revenue on shipping these
documents was more than or equal to revenue of the entire AEC industry. Does
this sound familiar to you? If so do you remember what those numbers were or
where they came from. I would assume that Project Point and online
collaboration is starting to or will be cutting into those numbers. What do
you think?
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"Russ Parker" <
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I'm not Scott Sheppard, but I can give you my
observation of how this works. It is true that FedX and other carriers will
feel some loss immediately of not shipping quite as many documents. But
not as much as some would like to think. There are still many instances where
sending a complete set of drawings, or multiple sets, is not only essential,
but required. Such as permit sets to a city or state agency. From the client
side, not everyone you work with can or will use ProjectPoint. And there is
the annual cost of maintaining a ProjectPoint site. Until the money you save
in shipping exceeds the cost of your site, you haven't saved anything at all
in that area of cost.
So the carriers will lose some revenue. And the
ProjectPoint users will save some time and hopefully, eventually, some money.
But I certainly don't see this qualifying as an industry shakeup.
My 2 cents.
Russ
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"JMoore" <Scott,
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I remember overharing at an Autodesk University (or OTC)coference some
numbers on how much Fedex makes in a year off of shipping architectural
documents. It is hazy but I beleive Carol Bartz said their revenue on
shipping these documents was more than or equal to revenue of the entire AEC
industry. Does this sound familiar to you? If so do you remember what those
numbers were or where they came from. I would assume that Project Point and
online collaboration is starting to or will be cutting into those numbers.
What do you think?