On Monday 10 November 2003 10:24 pm, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:11:04PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Paying the occasional "sysadmin bill" might well come out to less > > > than what these people spend on the software itself now. > > People cost a ton -- $100g + 30% for benefits. I use round numbers: > in my 9 years since college, the "average joe" has gone from > expecting roughly $45K, then to $60K, now kids out of school expect > $75K.
Really? I don't know where you're from, but computer jobs (of any kind) are basically paying absolute shit right now. You'll be damn lucky to make $50k these days as an experienced admin, let alone someone green out of college. Hell, you'd be lucky to find a steady job at all, most are contract crap for six moths or less. Don't know about programming jobs, but that seems even worse. There are some 75k+ jobs, but they're hard to find and positions don't come up often. > I know it sucks, but you really can make a case for replacing people > with dumb software -- people are amazingly expensive to maintain :-) Microsoft, for all their bad qualities, has at least done one good thing: they've proven that this simlpy cannot be done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
