[845] in Kerberos
Re: costs of kerberos and X.500
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Kleinpaste)
Tue Dec 19 11:48:16 1989
From: cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl@ohio-state.arpa (Karl Kleinpaste)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
nessett@ccc.nmfecc.gov writes:
A computer center supporting a user population of about 2,000 would
probably have a budget of about $30 million/year.
Surely you jest - you missed by two orders of magnitude.
I just checked the budgetary figures for this department. "wc -l
/etc/passwd" returns 2302. This fiscal year's support budget for this
~2000 user base is ~$234,000 for actual system costs (harware,
software, phones/modems, etc) and about twice that (estimated) for
staff support, mostly salaries. Call it $750,000 for round numbers.
Now you want us to add 3.6% to that budget (~$27,500) just to get
authorization.
That's just this department. Multiply by 30 for the rest of the
university: you're pushing hard for $1M.
It won't even be considered.
