Our IT dept here where I work is 1 Systems analyst, 1 network admin, and our boss. That is for about 200 pc users across 27 locations, not big, but our ratio is what works for us, so we don't rock the boat... maybe if our users were a little more savvy we could run with 2 people, they tried that and it wasn't enough, but 4 would be too many. Really this is one of those hard to predict things that could be 1 for every 10 people, or 1 for every 50 people. In our case, we try to automate as much as possible, eliminating a lot of the mundane things that are just annoying to do... little things like that help keep everything balanced and maintain a reasonable tech to user ratio.

Personally, I would love to do something like this with my own company, but in reality, those support and service contracts contain considerable weight in the corporate world. Ultimately, the $100-200 you might save per box will not offset the cost to the company in man hours spent by you to repair the system if and when it fails. Also, on the if and when it fails side of things, lets say you have a dell pc that arrives and then 2 weeks later dies. You get the joy of blaming dell. If you build the system and it dies 2 weeks out of the gate, its your fault, and the time spent repairing, once again, will more than likely negate any savings on building them in house. Also, most companies (Right up to an including industry juggernauts like Wyndham, Bell and the like) live by those support contracts. You are right in that they don't get the same support contracts that a consumer gets, but they get some really good contracts because they buy in large volume (Volume discounts ftw), ensuring that even with the cost of the hardware and support contracts, building your own actually costs more on a large scale deployment. With a small business, this model can work, but once you get into the medium/large businesses, there is really no actual advantage.

As the job titles don't state MCSE/CCNA/CCNP/MCDST/ETC.... they aren't technically misrepresenting anything. As to the employees misrepresenting, thats a whole other issue entirely. If they can't hack the job, it is up to the company to replace them with someone competant. And no this doesn't mean they HAVE to have the certs, but if they don't, they should have experience with the equipment (Or at least comparable equipment). Either way however, just because someone has a cert doesn't mean they have a clue about what they were/are doing or should be doing. As an example, at my work, I don't have a single cert to my name, I just have experience and a drive to learn about what I don't know, and I'll be the first to say I don't know, but I'll make sure to find out about it..... the guy I replaced was a double major comp-sci/networking guy who had certs up the ying-yang. He was useless, I turned out not to be, so I am still here and he isn't.

My BIS Stuff on my bb is working great... no issues here in Atlantic Canada!

The title of this article is very misleading and incorrect. The arrest was done by New Jersey Police. The only thing remotely canadian about this is that Justin Bieber is Canadian. The rest of this is all US..