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Re: [PLUG] OT: Linux Business Forum
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This is why they should contract with a Linux VAR like ACE Technology
Group, Xulin, etc. As I recall, this discussion was focused on small/med
businesses, who don't typically have full-time IT staff.
> Fred K Ollinger said:
>>> For "stand-alone" severs, Linux requires a different skill set than
>>> is required to support the desktop which means a different Sys Admin
>>> for the Server than for the desktops. But since the Linux/desktop
>>> interface is foreign to the skill set of a desktop administrator, it
>>> means that the cost of the Linux SysAdmin skyrockets.
>>
>> How so? As a linux sysadmin, I don't see my Cost Skyrocketing. I
>> really wish we had the same experience.
>
> Exactly; you *are* a Linux SysAdmin. The example postulates having to
> hire someone is a Linux SysAdmin, since (probably/possibly) the existing
> Admin personnel are not Linux people.
>
> So the cost skyrockets, since there is a whole new employee to be paid
> for - salary, benefits (usually something like 30% of salary is paid out
> as benefits; inevitable learning period of the new Admin, while they
> learn the specifics of your business/company, etc.
>
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