[Gllug] slightly OT - linux consultancy enquiry
Alain Williams
addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Oct 24 21:19:47 UTC 2002
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:11:27PM +0100, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
> > I hear everywhere the claim that Linux is a cheap alternative to Windows
> > but is it really, considering the consultancly fees? Can someone tell me
> > how Linux works-out cheaper for a small business which is already using
> > Windows (95/98/NT)? Apart from the stability factor, why would some
> > small office with an NT4 server go to the trouble of replacing it with a
> > Samba/Linux machine if it's going to cost £750/600 per day to set-up?
>
> An M$Office 2000 licence costs about £220 per machine, take into account the
> fact that any other software that the company may be using, accounts
> software, graphics, etc... is (or at least should be) licenced. You may still
> need to hire a MCSE to do work for you and that it isn't exactly cheap
> either.
> All in all I think LInux can be a cheaper alternative and more secure, but
> that's only my possibly not sufficiently informed view
Good Linux people cost more than M$ people. However, the cost calculation is
much more complicated than that. One of the big wins with Linux is that, a
properly configured system (or set of machines), can be maintained more cheaply.
Hill House Hammond (high street insurers) had to have one M$SE for every 50 windows
boxes. They replaced them with Linux ones & they have one guy for every 500 Linux
boxes & the users love them since the dont crash.
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Alain Williams
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