On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:07:19PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > > > > Services consulting varies from $25-$400/hour. The services you are > > > > offering tend to be valued on the low side. > > > > > > and even highter ... try $50,000/yr with no minimum gurantee of anything > > > > $50,000 / 2000hrs/year = $25/hr thank you drive through :-) > > good point, except its 24x7 coverage from them, so its more like $8/hr ... Yeah, but if your $50,000/yr client only needs 50 hours of actual service during that year, then it's a grand an hour. All of a sudden, it doesn't sound too hard to undercut that. Then again, these numbers look like they come from the world of selling solutions to businesses, which is really not what the questions being asked on this thread are about. Plunk your average PC-owning end-user down in front of woody + KDE3 + OO.o + recent Mozilla, and their maintenance needs are likely to go about as far as ssh-ing in to their box and running an apt-get update when security fixes come out. Charge a couple of hundred bucks a year for that and it's well into the black. Might make sense to have several levels of service. (Please note that I'm thinking in Canadian dollars, but these are wild-ass-guess numbers anyway) - Routine patches: $50/year - Patches + version upgrades + up to n hours of other work that can be done over ssh: $200/year ... or maybe $n*100/year - House calls extra (but discounted if you're on a plan) - Maybe offer the "insurance" plan including coverage of ID10T errors for quite a lot more per year (not necessary if you go with the $n*100/year formula I guess) - Maybe cover additional machines in same household for a discounted rate? Home LAN packages with file- and printer-sharing? Cheers! -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | Oh, America my friend / And so once again < > Please do not | You are fighting us all / And when we ask you why < > reply off-list. | You raise your sticks and cry and we fall < > | - Joni Mitchell < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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