Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 84.41.167.146]
on March 15, 2008 09:37 AM
I am the 'IT guy' for my customers and yes they do have to pay me for my services. In my opinion the majority ( > 95%) of business owners is not interested or does not have the time to do system administration. I take care of checking their backups, handle restores, add new users/groups, replace old hardware, advice them, etc.
To make a comparison: when your company car gets defect: do you repair it yourself? I think IT/System Engineering should be done by professionals, it is not something to be done by a secretary or so. I get tired when I hear the endless MS is expensive, Linux based solutions are cheap blabla. Most (> 70 %) of the IT costs for busineses are personel costs, not hardware or software costs. By the way: the above is for companies with 3 or more active IT users. For smaller companies one or two pc's (with and a cheap NAS box is enough.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 84.41.167.146] on March 15, 2008 09:37 AMTo make a comparison: when your company car gets defect: do you repair it yourself? I think IT/System Engineering should be done by professionals, it is not something to be done by a secretary or so. I get tired when I hear the endless MS is expensive, Linux based solutions are cheap blabla. Most (> 70 %) of the IT costs for busineses are personel costs, not hardware or software costs. By the way: the above is for companies with 3 or more active IT users. For smaller companies one or two pc's (with and a cheap NAS box is enough.
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