matthew@byu.edu: [uug] Microsoft's "Competing with Linux"

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting fig at monitor.net:

> "The study presumes: Linux installations need as many administrators as 
>   Windows installations (they certainly do not), 

This dependes on the level of under-staffing.  Windows does not need more 
administrators than *NIX, but it needs more support techs per workstation.

> ... Linux administrators cost a  lot more than Windows administrators 
> (they do not). 

They should.  Good ones will.  Windows it trying hard to sell itself as 
something you can hire a 20 year old with a paper MSCE for $20k to run.  Linux 
should be administered by someone with some time in the trenches and some idea 
of his own worth.  He should not be willing to sleep under the desk or work 
sixty hours a week to keep the network up - he should be smart enough that he 
doesn't have to do either.

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