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Article #1031Re: costs of kerberos and X.500
From: Brain in Neutral
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 15:49
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 15:49
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From article <891218121403.22200126@CCC.NMFECC.GOV>, by NESSETT@CCC.NMFECC.GOV: > ...A computer center supporting a user population of about 2,000 would > probably have a budget of about $30 million/year. Given that > large computers are becoming less economically attractive, let's cut this > number in half and say you can support a user population of 2,000 on $15 > million per year. That works out to about $7,500 per user per year. This is > total system cost including hardware, software support, staff salaries, plant, > administration, etc. Let's be real conservative and say a minimum computing > environment can be sustained with a per user cost of $5,000 per year. Hmm, I support ~100 users on a staff of one (me) and my budget is (easily) less than $100K/year. That's < $1000/user/year. $12.50/user/year for certificates means I'd be spending over 1 percent of my budget *just for authorization*. No thanks. Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!bin From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos Subject: Re: costs of kerberos and X.500 Message-ID: <1318@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> Date: 19 Dec 89 15:49:42 GMT References: <891218121403.22200126@CCC.NMFECC.GOV> Sender: bin@primate.wisc.edu Reply-To: bin@primate.wisc.edu Lines: 19