I'd be interested to see if the included 10 years of salaries in their migration costs? It'd also be good to see an analysis on the lost benefit of simply paying the MS tax and using those 10 years to so something more productive. Since the costs are not fully disclosed it would be safe to assume there is some dodgy accounting going to.
IT budget is just barely over $100,000/year and that includes hardware and software. 14,000 students in the district, spread across ~10 towns, in 50-odd buildings. Only 14 IT staff, looking after it all.
You've clearly hidden a lot costs since $100k wouldn't even cover the 14 salaries, let alone hardware, software, and comms costs. I wonder if Munich are using the same accounting methods...
It's no more difficult to maintain a custom distro than a custom Windows installation. In fact, many organizations have their own "Windows distro" that comes with preconfigured and preinstalled software and properties.
Crap. The one benefit of using a closed product is the under the hood is identical across the board, so patching and upgrading is a *lot* more predictable. Customised Linux may offer benefits in some areas but a predictable upgrade/patch path isn't one of them.
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You keep mentioning this difference as a ratio of employer salary as if this matters. Should I also use this excuse to buy a $6000 desk? a $2000 chair? $10000 coffee machine? Where do you draw the line at servicing your $100k employees? Running a business is about increasing profit and reducing costs. Increasing your Capex by 100% needs a better justification than "Shiny".
I've seen some episodes of Air Crash Investigation that say otherwise. They might be getting better, but those early glass cockpit design were actually responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people.
Different story here in Australia. We've had massive investment in energy infrastructure but the expected demand never happened. Energy use has actually reduced overall, meaning all that expenditure now has to be spread across less (than expected) customers. The result is higher per unit prices, effectively creating a death spiral scenario. The rise in prices means people are cutting back in usage even more, meaning suppliers have to keep raising prices to cover costs. It's a positive feedback loop, so far prices are up 70% in the last 5 years all because energy suppliers threw a lot of money into supply but demand did not grow as expected.
Maybe because Apple uses proprietary cables and connectors that costs a lot more than standard equivalents?
I've run shops with both Apple and Wintel and Apple costs more than twice as much when you factor in all the fluff. If you think that is a rounding error then you have a lot to learn about running a business.
It would be worth it in the long run, but he might have a tough time convincing managment of that.
Why would it be worth it? If what you have now works, then I'd love to hear your business case for me spending extra money to fix something that isn't broken. This is why IT nerds have little respect in most businesses, we're here to make money, not satisfy your religious requirements.
What good is IPv6 at all?
I'm working on a application whitelisting project at the moment, that is at tight as security gets for each individual machine. It is a hugely expensive complicated nightmare, so while it may tick a lot of theoretical security boxes, it is simply impractical for most networks. 'Good enough' has gotten mankind by for Millenia, what makes you think that will change now?
How many accidents do you think there would be if the sky was full of these things flying over busy cities, trying to avoid buildings, birds, power lines, lamp posts and other drones?
Pretty trivial to geofence an already GPS automated device. As for birds, the drones are slow enough for them to deal with appropriately by themselves.
I don't want to be under one one falling out of the sky with its spinning blades going at 20,000rpm.
I don't want to be under an 8 tonne truck when it's brakes fail either.
A quadcopter with a single engine failure/broken prop falls from the sky. You need 5 or more rotors to survive a single failure.
So use a hexacopter. None of the problems you raise are unsolvable.
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I'd be interested to see if the included 10 years of salaries in their migration costs? It'd also be good to see an analysis on the lost benefit of simply paying the MS tax and using those 10 years to so something more productive. Since the costs are not fully disclosed it would be safe to assume there is some dodgy accounting going to.
IT budget is just barely over $100,000/year and that includes hardware and software. 14,000 students in the district, spread across ~10 towns, in 50-odd buildings. Only 14 IT staff, looking after it all.
You've clearly hidden a lot costs since $100k wouldn't even cover the 14 salaries, let alone hardware, software, and comms costs. I wonder if Munich are using the same accounting methods...
It's no more difficult to maintain a custom distro than a custom Windows installation. In fact, many organizations have their own "Windows distro" that comes with preconfigured and preinstalled software and properties.
Crap. The one benefit of using a closed product is the under the hood is identical across the board, so patching and upgrading is a *lot* more predictable. Customised Linux may offer benefits in some areas but a predictable upgrade/patch path isn't one of them. .
And Munich has no self-interest in fudging numbers?
You keep mentioning this difference as a ratio of employer salary as if this matters. Should I also use this excuse to buy a $6000 desk? a $2000 chair? $10000 coffee machine? Where do you draw the line at servicing your $100k employees? Running a business is about increasing profit and reducing costs. Increasing your Capex by 100% needs a better justification than "Shiny".
I've seen some episodes of Air Crash Investigation that say otherwise. They might be getting better, but those early glass cockpit design were actually responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people.
Different story here in Australia. We've had massive investment in energy infrastructure but the expected demand never happened. Energy use has actually reduced overall, meaning all that expenditure now has to be spread across less (than expected) customers. The result is higher per unit prices, effectively creating a death spiral scenario. The rise in prices means people are cutting back in usage even more, meaning suppliers have to keep raising prices to cover costs. It's a positive feedback loop, so far prices are up 70% in the last 5 years all because energy suppliers threw a lot of money into supply but demand did not grow as expected.
Maybe because Apple uses proprietary cables and connectors that costs a lot more than standard equivalents? I've run shops with both Apple and Wintel and Apple costs more than twice as much when you factor in all the fluff. If you think that is a rounding error then you have a lot to learn about running a business.
It would be worth it in the long run, but he might have a tough time convincing managment of that.
Why would it be worth it? If what you have now works, then I'd love to hear your business case for me spending extra money to fix something that isn't broken. This is why IT nerds have little respect in most businesses, we're here to make money, not satisfy your religious requirements.
What good is IPv6 at all? I'm working on a application whitelisting project at the moment, that is at tight as security gets for each individual machine. It is a hugely expensive complicated nightmare, so while it may tick a lot of theoretical security boxes, it is simply impractical for most networks. 'Good enough' has gotten mankind by for Millenia, what makes you think that will change now?
How many accidents do you think there would be if the sky was full of these things flying over busy cities, trying to avoid buildings, birds, power lines, lamp posts and other drones?
Pretty trivial to geofence an already GPS automated device. As for birds, the drones are slow enough for them to deal with appropriately by themselves.
I don't want to be under one one falling out of the sky with its spinning blades going at 20,000rpm.
I don't want to be under an 8 tonne truck when it's brakes fail either.
A quadcopter with a single engine failure/broken prop falls from the sky. You need 5 or more rotors to survive a single failure.
So use a hexacopter. None of the problems you raise are unsolvable.