Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

From: Tim Kelley (tpk_at_r00tserverz.net)
Date: 11/15/03

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    To: Tom <tb.31020.nospam@comcast.net>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:41:17 -0600

    On Monday 10 November 2003 10:24 pm, Tom wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:11:04PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
    > > > Paying the occasional "sysadmin bill" might well come out to less
    > > > than what these people spend on the software itself now.
    >
    > People cost a ton -- $100g + 30% for benefits. I use round numbers:
    > in my 9 years since college, the "average joe" has gone from
    > expecting roughly $45K, then to $60K, now kids out of school expect
    > $75K.

    Really? I don't know where you're from, but computer jobs (of any kind)
    are basically paying absolute *** right now. You'll be damn lucky to
    make $50k these days as an experienced admin, let alone someone green
    out of college. Hell, you'd be lucky to find a steady job at all, most
    are contract crap for six moths or less. Don't know about programming
    jobs, but that seems even worse. There are some 75k+ jobs, but they're
    hard to find and positions don't come up often.

    > I know it sucks, but you really can make a case for replacing people
    > with dumb software -- people are amazingly expensive to maintain :-)

    Microsoft, for all their bad qualities, has at least done one good
    thing: they've proven that this simlpy cannot be done. 

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