On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jim Sibley wrote: > Alan wrote: > > "Its just that PC's are so cheap its > easier to use several for a job _IFF_ you can solve > the management > problem." > > That _IFF_ is not only non-trivial technically, but > also not not-trivial financially! > > You but one cheap PC or a hundred cheap PC's, you > still have a bunch of cheap PC's. > > One of my favorite examples is that our company still > has MS pervasively in the office and once a month we > get a note from IT security to put on a patch because > MS did it again. So it takes me 15 minutes, so what? > Well, with 300,000 in the company, thats 75,000 > MANHOURS. IT security doesn't care - the manhours > doesn't come out of its budget!
Here's a truly cheap PC, a Pentium II 233, bought at auction: [EMAIL PROTECTED] summer]$ uptime 11:28am up 93 days, 18:38, 12 users, load average: 0.15, 0.13, 0.09 You have mail in /var/spool/mail/summer [EMAIL PROTECTED] summer]$ All relevant fixes are applied. Doesn't even have a UPS on it; I have one, waiting for the next power failure. It's beginning to look like it will happen when we move house next month. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.