Comment Cost analysis... (Score 1) 214
Figure out:
how much downtime costs the company
how many of those incidents are due to engineers screwing up servers or databases
which engineers are avoiding engineering work doing IT work
compare labor costs of a IT pro and Engineer
If you can cost justify having six IT pros, couple of OS admins, couple of DBAs and a few tech support persons then it should be a no brainer...companies would rather pay engineers to do engineering work...not setting up PC's or installing and managing databases or patching windows servers....
how much downtime costs the company
how many of those incidents are due to engineers screwing up servers or databases
which engineers are avoiding engineering work doing IT work
compare labor costs of a IT pro and Engineer
If you can cost justify having six IT pros, couple of OS admins, couple of DBAs and a few tech support persons then it should be a no brainer...companies would rather pay engineers to do engineering work...not setting up PC's or installing and managing databases or patching windows servers....