Re: reasonable billable time for XP recovery?
Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
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"Voytek Eymont" <[email protected]> writes: > I occasionally get to reinstall failed XP machines > > what's a 'reasonable billable time' to: >From experience, this process takes between four and eight hours of effort, unless there is a local WSUS cache of all the updates.[1] What is reasonable, in my opinion, in terms of billable time is every second it takes you to work through the issues, plus any travel costs. What is reasonable to your customers, of course, will vary wildly. :) Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] That usually saves ~ 30 minutes of download time for patching. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html