[dba-Tech] Most used software

> assume that the OS answer is Windows, which leaves only Which Version?

Well, that leaves me out. :)

Hans
"A software developer who hasn't been using Windows since Twitter was launched and North Korea tested its first nuclear explosion."


On 10 Sep 2012, at 18:09, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to ask this question twice:
> 1. you (a presumed software developer)
> 2. your clients
> 
> I realize that there might be an overlap, and am not sure how to handle
> that but I'll get to it eventually. Meanwhile, let's assume these basics:
> 
> a) since I'm addressing this audience, I assume we can skip the Windows v.
> Linus argument, and instead assume that the OS answer is Windows, which
> leaves only Which Version?
> b) I'm guessing (no reason) that most of your clients are using various
> Office apps, and that perhaps so are you. But no Guarantees! For example, I
> have chosen Chrome and gmail over IE and Outlook -- not I'm not after
> agreement but rather numbers, not from some large measurement-entity out
> there in the wild, but rather from right here in my more immediate
> community.
> c) This might also involve your use of various VMs, which would beg the
> question of How much time and in which?
> d) At this point it gets much more general, but I need to ask this
> question: how much time do you spend on maintenance, by which I mean such
> mundane tasks as Backup, Defrag, burning backups to more permanent media
> such as DVD, installing Windows updates and various patches to subsystems
> such as ADO or FlashPoint updates, (this list could go on and on and on and
> on, but I assume that you get the point), and so on?
> e) Do you factor in any of the expenses in category d) into any and all of
> your billings to each and every client, or do you simply absorb all this as
> the cost of business? And if the latter, do you add some percentage or
> fixed amount to the billing to each client, under some general title such
> as "Administration"?
> 
> I'm not challenging anyone's particular method of handling this stuff. Far
> from it. I'm researching how freelancers deal with this stuff, and perhaps
> in this light, hoping to learn a trick or two.
> 
> -- 
> Arthur
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> 
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