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Shouldn't that be $400,000 (800X500=?)???



Andrew Lundgren <lund...@henge.com> wrote in article
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In message <32792F...@ix.netcom.com> - John Covington
<co...@ix.netcom.com>Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:02:07 -0500 writes:
>
>Kevin P. Neal wrote:
>>
>> He said "maintain", not "purchase".
>>
>> He's figuring in the costs of support for the machine and it's user.
>
>If corporate America is really spending these ridiculous sums to
>maintain its computers, that makes them just about the biggest bunch of
>suckers to walk the earth, IMHO...:) We may have found the secret behind
>economic inflation, after all.
>
>No wonder people are talking "NCs" up!  If I'd been getting robbed like
>that I'd be interested in them, too!...:)
>
>I hereby offer my services to any fortune 500 companies who want to
>learn how to lower your PC costs to at least $800-$1400 a year, or
>one-tenth of the amount previously stated!


I bet they would take you up on it.  So what you are saying is that you
ALONE will support around 500 machines.  (Giving you only $40,000/year)
Meaning you don't get benifits and you pay your own Social Security as
a self employed person.    How long is it going to take you to roll out
Win95 on all 500 of those machines that range from old 386s with 20meg of
ram to Pentiums with 64meg.  A few people are going to want to have their
custom sound cards configured, they bought them real cheap from a company
that said they are Sound Blaster compatables...  (The 8 bit version that
is...)  The name brand is unknown and the manuals to configure them are
long since lost....

  You may not have any idea what a nightmare it is to maintain 300+ PCs
that
are configured differently by any old shmoe computer shop.  Further if you
are
using a OS that doesn't have security to protect it from the users built in
it
justs gets worse!

It is not all just hardware...  "My Word won't do this...."  "Can you help
me install this program?"

PCs are a nightmare to maintain.  I have done it for around 300 with help.
It is not as easy as it seems.  And it does cost more then $800/year.

The NCs are a great idea.  Just let it run the apps from the central server
or suck them down as needed.  Nothing in the system for the bonehead user
to break...

Andrew Lundgren
lund...@henge.com
http://www.henge.com/~lundgren


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