From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 08:25:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C1737B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:25:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop016.verizon.net (pop016pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A3F43FAF for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.43.88]) by pop016.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030331162539.CMYC8278.pop016.verizon.net@mac.com>; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:25:39 -0600 Message-ID: <3E886BFA.70509@mac.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:25:30 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3E888417.27112.4D74274@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E888417.27112.4D74274@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop016.verizon.net from [129.44.43.88] at Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:25:39 -0600 cc: Moritz Fromwald Subject: Re: supports costs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:25:43 -0000 Moritz Fromwald wrote: > Does anyone know good information resources on long- > term support costs for freebsd or a comparison with > coresponding M$ Products? Sure. Check out SANS.org, salary.com, or anything else that lets you compare the annual salary for FreeBSD admins versus M$ admins. Then add the license costs of the M$ products in question, adjust by a fudge factor representing the difference in relative productivity, management whims, and all of the other unmeasureable factors unique to your situation. If you tell us what you're doing, how many users, and so forth, a bunch of people here can probably reel off rough estimates that will be in the right ballpark, anyway. -Chuck