[844] in Kerberos
Re: costs of kerberos and X.500
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brain in Neutral)
Tue Dec 19 11:00:11 1989
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!bin@ohio-state.arpa (Brain in Neutral)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
>From article <891218121403.22200126@CCC.NMFECC.GOV>, by NESSETT@CCC.NMFECC.GOV:
> ...A computer center supporting a user population of about 2,000 would
> probably have a budget of about $30 million/year. Given that
> large computers are becoming less economically attractive, let's cut this
> number in half and say you can support a user population of 2,000 on $15
> million per year. That works out to about $7,500 per user per year. This is
> total system cost including hardware, software support, staff salaries, plant,
> administration, etc. Let's be real conservative and say a minimum computing
> environment can be sustained with a per user cost of $5,000 per year.
Hmm, I support ~100 users on a staff of one (me) and my budget is (easily)
less than $100K/year. That's < $1000/user/year. $12.50/user/year for
certificates means I'd be spending over 1 percent of my budget *just for
authorization*.
No thanks.
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
