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was OT -> Re: [Beowulf] SuSE 9.3    Cristian Tibirna ctibirna at
Wed Jul 13 12:50:46 PDT 2005  On 13 July 2005 13:29, Jim Lux
wrote: > Aside from compatibility issues, there's a not-
insignificant cost to > rolling out a change to thousands of
desktops, some small fraction of which > WILL break for one
reason or another, no matter what OS you're > running.  Say
you're a corporate IT manager responsible for 10,000 desktop >
machines.  If 0.1% of those machines break (which is a very
small number), > you've got to handle 10 calls, each of which
probably costs you somewhere > between $500-1000 (staff to
handle it, the lost productivity of the person > who's machine
broke, etc.). > Say you roll out the change in the daytime..
there's going to be some > disruption of what's going on with
each desktop.  Say it costs 15 minutes > for each user.. times
10,000 users, that's 2500 work hours, conservatively > well over
$100K worth.  Assuming all goes well. I