RE: Fwd: Anti-spam Pilot Test: Employee & Student Volunteers Wanted!

Well...it does boil down to a possible language difference. To some of
the financial pipples, $35M is thirty-five thousand dollars. $35MM
would be thirty-five million. Also, got to question whether the
"maintenance" is contractual software maintenance or what they're paying
a tech to do. Some places break out the number of hours a tech spends
on it times the billable rate of the tech as "maintenance" costs, and in
that case even freeware is expensive. =20

Stephen King
Instructor, Information Technology
Charter College
2221 E. Northern Lights Suite 120
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 777-1370
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Kugler [mailto:jk@as.uaf.edu]=20
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:05 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Anti-spam Pilot Test: Employee & Student Volunteers
Wanted!

On Sunday 04 April 2004 02:39 pm, Scott Johnson wrote:
> > supports.=3DA0 Here at UAA, we have estimated that to implement =
an=3D20=20
> > Anti-spam solution that it would cost UAA between $35,000 -=20
> > $50,000=3D20 annually in software licensing and maintenance.=3DA0 In =
the

> > last 30 =3D
> days,=3D20
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> $35-$50M/year on "software licensing & maintenance".... has anyone=20
> who=3D20=3D

Umm...did anyone notice that the message from UAA said 35 to 50
*thousand* not=20
million? Granted, there are free solutions, but 35 to 50 thousand is a
bit=20
more reasonable than 35 to 50 million. Like, oh, three orders of a=20
magnitude. :)

j----- k-----

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Joshua Kugler
Assistant Systems Administrator
UAF Department of Mathematical Sciences
UAF LUG President

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Received on Mon Apr 5 07:38:48 2004