Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:48:21 +0200 From: "Moritz Fromwald" <mfromwald@gmx.at> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supports costs Message-ID: <3E888D75.8576.4FBDC7F@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E886BFA.70509@mac.com> References: <3E888417.27112.4D74274@localhost>
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Wow, that was quick Wow, that was quick, Well, as a school project, I had to redesign a SME companys network under licence-free and licencing aspects. The firm needs support for 10 workstations, ie file sharing, a backup solution, internet and email access. My partner and I implemented a Freebsd 4.7 file server with samba 2.2.8a, running on a P4 2000MHz 512DDR RRAM machine with 2*60 GB IDE HDD with a RAID 1, performed by a hardware controller. The system needs to be flexible for future adoption like webserving and its own SMTP/POP3 and is compared with a Windows 2000 standard server, as far as licence, support and downtime costs are concerned. Thx a lot for your help greez moritz fromwald Datum: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:25:30 -0500 Von: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Organisation: The Courts of Chaos An: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Kopie an: Moritz Fromwald <mfromwald@gmx.at> Betreff: Re: supports costs > 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 >
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