On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >> No I really was interested in the monthly rate for what you were >> selling. If we paid for it I would get a developer back because he >> spends 15% of his time in Net Admin tasks as well as code. My boss is >> still cheap and is semi proud that he can make a buffalo burp when he >> grabs a nickle. Now all of those cost savings over the past 15 years >> has made a pretty good sized outfit. He has 15 people on staff in FT >> roles and we are considering some contractors at this time as well. > > > Our main market is companies that want to reduce their IT staff, not > grow it. Companies who want to focus on what they do best, rather than manage > servers. I'm sure that if you figured that you were getting 15% of your > developer's time back as part of the deal, that that would be worth at least > 450/mo, and you'd get free hardware/electricity/monitoring to boot! You do > pay your devs at least 36K a year, don't you? -------------------
Well we are making customer changes and not so much OS/Patch/Upgrade changes. So dude will still be committed to the time per week 2-4 hrs a week to mange AD changes for clients. I am working on getting him out of having to do this at all but that is another conversation with my trust "anchor" ;-> -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
