Re: [Nolug] The Unix Desktop (was Re: If they're unreliable as heck... (was Re: [Nolug] someone's gotanaxe to grind...))

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:01:37 -0500
Message-ID: <4898A391.9030808@cox.net>

On 08/05/08 13:35, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Hardware was a factor, but not a big factor. It was more about
> management. Once you have more than a few machines the man-hours
> required to manage systems quickly becomes the most expensive element of
> IT. Specific to Windows, we saw that quite clearly as our support costs
> didn't rise very far at all even thought we were replacing green tubes
> with Windows TS servers and thin clients at several locations.

Because the driver of cost is the number of "complete computers"?

> In the end, I think we put around 100 or so thin clients in place and
> hired.. nobody. Yet we could offer the required functionality to our

"Required" as in "new additional"?

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can be a healthy motivator, but each has the ability to turn a
good scientist into a bad one; and in some cases, they can turn
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