Web Server (continued)
Remember me griping about the web server at work? Well, the politics are being bypassed. Our IS department is outsourced. They get paid by the server. We are using an old workstation for a web server. The IS department's solution is to put this on a dedicated web server. That would be great, but that would more than triple the cost of the product. They won't piggy-back it on another web server because of reliability/load issues (IS speak for pay up you cheep bastards). I'm starting to understand why web applications are not taking off in the corporate world. So, the guy on our side who works for us is running a dedicated wire from the first floor router to th third floor plug. They all end up in the same room in the back anyway.
A server unit is $1200 a month to support (including hardware). A server unit is an arbitrary clump of IS opinion. A web server is four server units minimum. The software is $4000 a year for a five "user" license (it is a web application, so it is a five administrator license). So, $1200 * 4 server units * 12 months = $57,600 per year. Can I administrate a server please? I'll sit there and stare at it units something goes wrong and I'll jump right on it, promise.
We have a new IS group, so these are all probably going to change.