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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