Friday, October 28, 2005

PriceWaterHouseCoopers switch from Windows to OpenBSD

Slashdot has an interesting post about PriceWaterHouseCoopers switching some machines from Microsoft Windows to OpenBSD.

What I found most interesting about the article, which can be found in its complete state at Computerworld, is the following quote:

"We saved seven salaries worth over one year. It was so dramatic they gave me a big raise and I was promoted from system administrator to IT manager."


The manager did admit that half the machines still ran Windows, but it's clear from the article that OpenBSD was responsible for alleviating a lot of the headaches PWC was having.