Managing Hundreds of Linux Machines is Easy Sep 6, 2007, 09 :00 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (6275 reads)
"There is a figure that I heard or read on the internet somewhere. I can't remember exactly where so please don't rake me over the coals over it. That figure is that it takes one administrator for every fifty windows machines but for every two hundred Linux machines only one administrator is needed.
"Personally I believe that it is not quite true but the ratio feels about right. First a small confession on my part. I manage nearly a hundred windows clients on my own. It is not that hard. If you have everything set up and automated it is easy..."