On Mer, 2003-07-30 at 04:09, Jim Sibley wrote: > MS did it again. So it takes me 15 minutes, so what? > Well, with 300,000 in the company, thats 75,000 > MANHOURS. IT security doesn't care - the manhours > doesn't come out of its budget!
Which is a different problem. Failing to budget the cost to realise that they should have paid someone to automate the fix propogation 8) One other organisation I deal with that has to handle lots of Linux on desktops for example has all of the boxes doing an apt-get from a private repository through per office apt caches (and you can do the same with up2date and more of course). An update propogates out to 500+ machines overnight, next boot or when the admin tool ssh's into the box to kick it and check for anything missing or in need of update.
