Comment Cost of the support people (Score 1) 101
You are absolutely correct, Glonoinha, when you consider costs of a developed country.
Talking once more about me experience in Brazil...
One of the companies I consult for has just renewed their campus wide anti-virus licence (about 1200 desktops running Windows). The cost of the licence alone was comparable to the salaries paid to 5 avarage-to-senior full-time supporters for that same year (if you disconsider the almost 100% government taxes on labour).
And that was for the anti-virus alone. Think about the OS, office production package, ERP, DB, server licences etc.
Those numbers are completely different when you have costy labour, but in our case here, just the licences make A LOT of the TOC.
Talking once more about me experience in Brazil...
One of the companies I consult for has just renewed their campus wide anti-virus licence (about 1200 desktops running Windows). The cost of the licence alone was comparable to the salaries paid to 5 avarage-to-senior full-time supporters for that same year (if you disconsider the almost 100% government taxes on labour).
And that was for the anti-virus alone. Think about the OS, office production package, ERP, DB, server licences etc.
Those numbers are completely different when you have costy labour, but in our case here, just the licences make A LOT of the TOC.
