Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!netcomsv!cmilono From: cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: User/Support Staff ratio poll... Message-ID: <1991May11.044031.3528@netcom.COM> Date: 11 May 91 04:40:31 GMT References: <14941@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: netnews@netcom.COM (USENET Administration) Organization: Netcom - Somewhere in the S.F. Bay Area Lines: 11 I have asked this same question of several very large firms in the Bay Area - famous names & Fortune 500. The *average* ratio is 110 users to 1 administrator (a qualified one, no beginners). It really depends on your network, the number of gateways to 'foreign' stuff, and so on... -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: cmilono@netcom.apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+