On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 03:51:19PM +1000, Howard Lowndes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I think another problem is that sysadms are, generally, not good at
> business maths. Normally the only thing that a PHB understands is the
> bottom line. If sysadms could put forward a case for the TCO of a
> product, and it has to be a case that has realistic, demonstratble,
> figures, not one plucked from thin air, then they will present a more
> credible case.
Thats rubbish. Microsoft is telling everybdy that their TCO is better
than everybody elses and I know a couple of Sysadmins who try to "correct"
this idea in their bosses heads and simply can't.
They simply get told that 1000000 people must be correct,
why should that one Sysadmin?????
Even if they try and have the numbers they will fail because of:
* the incradible false advertising campaigns of Microsoft
* the stupid idea of people to think that there is more software
around for 98/NT then for Unixes (NOTE its only not as "visible"
ie shops dont have it but software for linux is there ...)
* tco to re-teach users to users operating systems ....
My frustration level with Microsoft is so high now that I am currently
starting to annoy my users which is not good as and I am not only the
SysAdmin but own the place to 50% .....
*AND I KNOW* that the tco is better on Unix then NT but I am lucky
enough that I am the one who buys the stuff!
Example for TCO on Linux/NT installing a plugin for netscape:
on the *nix server which has netscape, gzip and untar whatever.plugin
cp * /usr/lib/netsape/plugins
done, it is (after closing netscape and restarting it) available to everyone.
Dont try that on NT, you gotta update ALL userprofiles and hkey_local_machine
reigstry entries. What a wste of time.
Rachel I understand your frustration.
jobst
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