Re: Cost of RDP

Years ago a project manager told me that to get my total cost down, they had to cut the hardware component of my workstation. "Here's your 12" amber terminal."

He was soon replaced with a project manager whose most recent job had been as Daily Parade Director at one of the Disney theme parks.



On 7/4/2011 2:39 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

On 7/3/2011 11:45 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Let's say just for a giggle that RDP saves you an hour a week (and I
guarantee it saves me a lot more than that) over WDSC. That's 50 hours
a year, give or take. So a quick divide tells me you consider your time
to be worth about four bucks an hour. Yeah, I know that might be a bit
over-simplified, but hopefully you get my drift. $800 just ain't that
much as a one-time cost.

Joe ... while I don't disagree with your logic in the slightest ... it's been my observation that most management types (at least the kind that would deny the purchase of a RDP license) can't see that particular forest due to all the trees in the way.

A company I used to work for (a long time ago) refused to let the IT group purchase project management software until we got our current projects completed (oh yeah, they had a new requirement to add to the project in the same memo).

david