[BNM] "Enterprise" architecture versus other stuff (Was:Re: PHP consulting (sort of...))

[Antony Jones]

>>But you *do* have to pay for it -- your support fees for installing
and >>looking after the thing.

>>-Dom

I don't believe that I or anybody I know (some who host a lot of
high-traffic sites) on their co-located machines have ever paid any
'support fees' for installing or looking after said machines. One of
them only pays for reboots, and you can imagine which type of machine
needs more rebooting :)

Next argument?

Antony Jones
Developer
 
Gamesys Limited
e: antonyj at gamesys.co.uk
t: 0207 478 8103
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org [mailto:bnmlist-
> bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Dominic Mitchell
> Sent: 30 January 2007 23:08
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] "Enterprise" architecture versus other stuff
(Was:Re:
> PHP consulting (sort of...))
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:30:39PM -0000, Richard Maynard - Wessex
> Networks wrote:
> > I have one such client like this, and no matter how many times I
explain
> > that there are "completely free operating systems" he looks at me
> blankly
> > and says: "what do you mean? Who makes it? Why? Why do I not have to
pay
> for
> > it?" - it just does not compute for him. There is life outside
Redmond
> you
> > know!
> 
> But you *do* have to pay for it -- your support fees for installing
and
> looking after the thing.
> 
> -Dom
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