* Posts by Lias

2 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jun 2021

When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England

Lias

Fairly standard pricing

In a past life I was an Application Packager and SOE / Deployment Engineer and after converting those prices to my local currency these prices sound pretty bog standard for outsourced packaging. Prices in my market range from about 5000-7500 GBP per application, based on 2 weeks of engineer time at between 75-100 GBP per hour.

Lias

Re: What is FREE?

This won't be packaging things for Linux, this will be packaging things for deployment on locked down Windows boxes in an enterprise environment via SCCM, Intune or one of the similar products. Most FOSS doesn't come with native MSI installers, plenty of it doesn't come with installers full stop and some requires compiling. So packaging in this sense would be compiling from source or repackaging a non silent installer, packaging all the pre-requisites, testing it, deploying it, etc.