7. Personnel Costs (the ratio of administrators to users for Windows-based networks is about 20/1. Conversely, with GNU/Linux-based networks the ratio is much higher, more like 150/1. I know administrators that have even higher ratios than that, and are comfortable with it)
I thnk you meant "the ration of users to administrators"
While the initial open source software may be "free," most studies conclude that acquisition costs represent only 5 to 10 percent of total cost of ownership."
By the way, Dean is not proposing a single-payer system since he doesn't think it will pass. What Vermont did, and what he proposes for the country, is an expansion of existing systems, especially for children and the elderly.
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Oops. "the ratio of users to administrators"
While the initial open source software may be "free," most studies conclude that acquisition costs represent only 5 to 10 percent of total cost of ownership."
Okay, so "free" is 5 to 10 percent of what? :)
By the way, Dean is not proposing a single-payer system since he doesn't think it will pass. What Vermont did, and what he proposes for the country, is an expansion of existing systems, especially for children and the elderly.
wOULD yOU pREFER tHE cAPS lOCK?