<quote who="David Kempe">
> My experience is that I have 50 user, 3 server clients that have no
> fulltime support at all. In fact - for the scenarios I am thinking of the
> ratios would be mostly similar - sorry to burst your bubble on this.
That's the critical difference though - you're comparing 50 user, casually
maintained, low policy (security, standards) sites to far more demanding,
multiple location, high policy, greater than 200 user sites. Internal IT
departments and support, remote user support (ie. laptops), etc. It's a
different world.
> A well setup windows site with competent admin should probably have about
> the same with a well setup linux site. Sure it will almost definitely cost
> more to get to that state, but the TCO running costs should be similar.
> Keep also in mind that Linux based network are not immune to be set up
> badly.
TCO calculations generally assume a reasonable setup and competent
administration (otherwise the data would be close to useless), but may
include disaster recovery components, etc.
Unfortunately for us, the Free Software choice is a long term proposition.
We have to compete with and/or deliver on short term business goals to
succeed. We could learn a few tricks from NSW salination protestors and
working groups, and some centre-left environment groups on this point.
- Jeff
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