Certification - realpath(3) et al

[Chris Odell]

  I agree...

  I was just throwing that out there - it was not a researched
statistic. 

  But on the same note - There are plenty of carrier hotels that have
far more then 1000 machines in service. As a matter of fact over the
past year there have been plenty of houses that have made the switch to
FreeBSD.

Chris Odell


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From: owner-freebsd-security at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-security at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:36 AM
To: chris at redstarnetworks.net
Cc: 'Devon H. O'Dell'; security at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: realpath(3) et al


Chris Odell wrote:
>  
>   Corporations - INTERNET Companies...
> 
>   If you look at the big picture, having a O.S. that has been audited 
> for issues would actually be cost effective for them. Having to patch 
> a machine that is in service causes downtime.
> 
>   Lets see -
> 
>   Each machine takes ten (10) minutes of human work to drop into
single
> user mode and install new binaries/kernels   
>  
>   The company has one thousand (1000) machines
> 
>   That comes to ten thousand (10000) minutes, broken down to hours - 
> 167 Hours
> 
>   The average admin say is making forty five (45) dollars a hour - 
> over $7000.00 - not including taxes paid by employer.
> 
>   So if one hundred fifty companies donated one thousand dollars 
> (1000) it would save them downtime, payroll, and taxes.
> 
>   Just a rough estimate and my 2 cents

Unfortunately, you're assuming there are 150 companies with 1000 FreeBSD

machines, that have an admin getting paid $90k/yr.

I think you'd have better luck raising $50 from 3000 people to achieve 
that same amount of money, but still I believe it would be very hard.

Eric


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