Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: The Hardy Few Message-ID: <1991Apr18.171957.17924@alphalpha.com> Date: 18 Apr 91 17:19:57 GMT References: <1991Apr6.072832.4012@cs.ubc.ca> <335@texas.gtephx.UUCP> Distribution: comp,world Organization: asi Lines: 17 In article <335@texas.gtephx.UUCP> wilsonj@gtephx.UUCP (Jay Wilson) writes: >As a side note we at one point had 900+ workstations and 8 sys_admins (112+:1). >Over the last year we have scaled back to 583 workstations and 6 sys_admins >(97:1). Lets see Sun sys_admins support that many workstations. That's in line with what I've heard from another site. Going from Apollo networks to NFS/TCP networks they find they are going from a 100/1 sysadmin ratio to a 50/1 ratio. Twice as many sysadmins for the same number of machines. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.