Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:11:25 -0700 From: "Chris Odell" <chris@redstarnetworks.net> To: "'Eric Anderson'" <anderson@centtech.com>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Certification - realpath(3) et al Message-ID: <000f01c360fd$2bc3f200$0304a8c0@delllaptop> In-Reply-To: <3F390945.8060509@centtech.com>
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I agree... I was just throwing that out there - it was not a researched statistic. But on the same note - There are plenty of carrier hotels that have far more then 1000 machines in service. As a matter of fact over the past year there have been plenty of houses that have made the switch to FreeBSD. Chris Odell -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Anderson Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:36 AM To: chris@redstarnetworks.net Cc: 'Devon H. O'Dell'; security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: realpath(3) et al Chris Odell wrote: > > Corporations - INTERNET Companies... > > If you look at the big picture, having a O.S. that has been audited > for issues would actually be cost effective for them. Having to patch > a machine that is in service causes downtime. > > Lets see - > > Each machine takes ten (10) minutes of human work to drop into single > user mode and install new binaries/kernels > > The company has one thousand (1000) machines > > That comes to ten thousand (10000) minutes, broken down to hours - > 167 Hours > > The average admin say is making forty five (45) dollars a hour - > over $7000.00 - not including taxes paid by employer. > > So if one hundred fifty companies donated one thousand dollars > (1000) it would save them downtime, payroll, and taxes. > > Just a rough estimate and my 2 cents Unfortunately, you're assuming there are 150 companies with 1000 FreeBSD machines, that have an admin getting paid $90k/yr. I think you'd have better luck raising $50 from 3000 people to achieve that same amount of money, but still I believe it would be very hard. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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