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to: Mike `/m`
from: John Cuccia
date: 2003-06-08 18:27:20
subject: Re: Merrill Lynch: Linux saves money

From: John Cuccia 

>>>   "It's the people that cost the most," he said. "
>>>
>>> Blows a big hole in the pro-Windows argument.
>>
>>It doesn't ring true either since it wasn't so long ago they were saying how
>>much more unix admins make than windows admins which were described
as "a
>>dime a dozen"..
>>
>
>Windows admins are "a dime a dozens".   But the ones who actually know
>what they are doing are much more expensive.

But the savings were said to accrue from a reduction in the number of
servers required.  Fewer machines means fewer admins, of any ilk.

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