I don't understand what you mean by: 'Because the driver of cost is the
number of "complete computers"?' What do you mean "complete computer"?
You mean with a keyboard and monitor?
"Required" as in "the company needed to support software which they
needed to sell what they were selling so they could make a profit and
pay people".. required. :)
-- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Ron Johnson wrote: > 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"? > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 08/05/08
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