Re: The company I work for went through this
A challenge on this quote: "There are a lot more Windows sys admins and technicians than Linux ones, which means that the authority may be able to get away with paying less".
Is that really true these days? Windows system administration is *significantly* more advanced than, say, in the NT4 days. Powershell, GPO, WSUS, etc etc are not noddy things, they are as powerful as chainsaws. Linux administration is still fundamentally and culturally a GUI+config file affair, and the explosion in the cloud/devops way of doing things has led to a generation of kids who can do this.
Not arguing, but I think this claim is worthy of more investigation. Trevor Potts, where are you?
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