The American company I work for once decided that the shared folders of the German team should be located on an American server. So they flew the hard drives to

The American company I work for once decided that the shared folders of the German team should be located on an American server. So they flew the hard drives to the USA over a week-end. Then the Germans complained because of the time it took them to open their excel files. So the company had to fly the hard drives back to Germany. Anecdotal, but a good example IMHO.