Just to indicate why the sysadmin/user ratio is important: Consider over 6 years. TCO for Linux vs MS.
Assumptions: Sysadmins cost you an average of $75K/year counting on-costs (ie super, govt taxes, deskspace, leasing equip etc, etc). If the ratio users they can support is 1:100 for Linux (which I suspect is true) and 1:30 for Microsoft (again this is my experience). The cost benefit is: Linux $2,025,000.00 Microsoft $8,608,000.00 Go MS - pay extra - $6,583,000.00 Calc: $75000*6years*5 Sysadmins for Linux vs $75000*6years*15 MCSEs for MS. ie every year costs an extra $1M _excluding license fees. If you have any figures for comparison even from your own experiences please help. TIA Stuart Guthrie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
