Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos Subject: Re: costs of kerberos and X.500 Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 89 16:36:49 GMT References: <891218121403.22200126@CCC.NMFECC.GOV> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 18 nessett@ccc.nmfecc.gov writes: A computer center supporting a user population of about 2,000 would probably have a budget of about $30 million/year. Surely you jest - you missed by two orders of magnitude. I just checked the budgetary figures for this department. "wc -l /etc/passwd" returns 2302. This fiscal year's support budget for this ~2000 user base is ~$234,000 for actual system costs (harware, software, phones/modems, etc) and about twice that (estimated) for staff support, mostly salaries. Call it $750,000 for round numbers. Now you want us to add 3.6% to that budget (~$27,500) just to get authorization. That's just this department. Multiply by 30 for the rest of the university: you're pushing hard for $1M. It won't even be considered.