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Originally posted by masraum
Unix, regardless of the number of servers, 1 admin, they don't break and it takes a wizard to work on them.
Windows, 5 admins per server, they take constant maintenance, similar to incubating eggs that never hatch, and 5 paper MCP's almost equal 1 monkey.
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Hah hah funny guy.
The opposite is true. Microsoft boxes require less administration than Unix or Linux boxes. Of course if you get your Linux from IBM, you don't have to have any administrators....because you are paying 200k are year for a couple of Big Blue chimps to be on your staff... :P
Rick, you are looking for information that is likely going to be tainted by marketing hype. Microsoft had done massive studies on this issue, and there is a strong correlation between labor costs and the use of Unix/Linux. In environments where costs are high, Mircosoft dominates, because more of the day to day administrative tasks are automated. In envrionments where labor costs are low, unix/linux dominate because they can afford the staff to deal with the hands on work.
Frankly, I would be very suspicious of any one claiming to have a 'magic number'. I know of environments with 1000+ users and only 2 admins, but those are tightly controlled Citrix shops. Other environments, like law firms, may have a very high number of administrators 'per server' because they staff requres a lot of support.
The number of administrators will typically correlate more strongly with the number of people, not servers.