How much to maintain web site?
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Do you know how much is that in Zimbabwe? 36,844,444,000,000.00 ZWD This Amount of Budget can maintain 1000000 websites :)
Vuyiswa Maseko, Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them "Developers" or "Programmers." C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET/SQL7/2000/2005/2008 http://www.vuyiswamaseko.tiyaneProperties.co.za vuyiswam@its.co.za
As long as you don't mind the low bandwidth of the tribal drum link, anyway....
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I am ready to maintain the site with 50% less and with 2 people :p
Does that include moderating the 50 blogs "transition team" Obama would like to link to the site?
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We're not just talking about the direct costs of employment but also the other on-costs. You need HR people to hire and fire them, accounts people to make sure they get paid, security people to check their ID at the door, offices, people to clean the offices, electricity, ... I don't know how the US govt does its accounting, but in all the universities and research labs institutions I've worked in, the multiplier has been between 2.4 and 3.4. (Yes, 3,4!). If you want to hire someone for a project, you need to find 3.4 * salary to pay for that. Sure, some of the costs listed above aren't really a marginal cost, but that's not how the accounting is done. And let's not go trying to explain to accountants that their numbers are rubbery -- life's too short for that.
stuartprescott wrote:
We're not just talking about the direct costs of employment but also the other on-costs. You need HR people to hire and fire them, accounts people to make sure they get paid, security people to check their ID at the door, offices, people to clean the offices, electricity
As Stuart points out OH is much more complicated than a simple multiplier. The OH multiplier is accounting short hand for recovery of additional costs of running the business. It is frequently stated as (in-direct costs) / (direct costs), where in-direct are all the managers, support staff, buildings, utilities, etc. But different companies and industries use different definitions of in-direct vs direct costs. For example some include material in the direct costs, others do not. If you include it and it is a large fraction of your costs, the OH multiplier will be small. If you are a university with no material costs, a relatively small work force and a large fixed cost, the multiplier will be large. Companies can "play" with the OH multiplier by shifting mid level managers or support staff from in-direct to direct. Which lowers the OH multiplier, but does nothing to change the actual cost of doing business. The OH multiplier is not a fixed number. It will need to change if there is a change in either the direct or in-direct costs. For example if you have a staff of ten and layoff five without getting rid of fixed costs like building rents (and ignoring employment taxes for purposes of illustration), the OH multiplier will almost double. Hire ten more people without adding space or management and the OH multiplier will essentially be cut in half. In short, one can not compare OH multipliers with any confidence they mean the same thing unless you know a lot about how companies keep their books. Sorry - if I am lecturing, but this is a concept I have tried to engineers explain a number of times.
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Hans Dietrich wrote:
a hamster supervisor.
Otherwise called a cat. That'll keep them motivated.
Steve_Harris wrote:
Otherwise called a cat
which are of course de rigeur at 1600 penn ave
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The White House is saying that they're having a tough time keeping the White House web site up to date, because they only have 6 people and a budget of $1M. Is this complaint justified? Does anyone have any facts (of other web sites) to compare this with? How much money and how big a support staff do you think they should have to get the job done?
Best wishes, Hans
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Anyone know how many worked on and how much was spent on Obama's campaign websites. I suspect that over the period of the 2 year campaign. it was a heck of a lot more than 12 man years and orders of magnitude more than $2m.
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Does that include moderating the 50 blogs "transition team" Obama would like to link to the site?
blog team will be increased, so ofcourse, I will be with bit big team to maintain 50 blogs..... ofcourse Mr. Obama wanted to maintain 50 blogs.... budget should vary...but not as 1 mn dollars