[OT?] Remote management service idea

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 06:41 -0500, Leonard Isham wrote:

> A few thoughts.
> 
> Let's see $80 install  and $240 for a year of support is $320 for the
> first year and $240 each additional year.  The big question is will
> people pay that even if it is billed monthly?

   If they don't, we send'em back the root password by certified mail.

> Consider the first several months will be the most support so you make
> the least amount per hour.  After they stop needing you thay may
> cancel...  Maybe a monthly fee for the beginners and then a per
> support incident fee option.
> 
> Is this per computer or per user?  Family/shared computer discount?

    It's intended as a per-machine cost. 

    I'm afraid the idea is dissolving quickly though; the money's just
not there, and I can't 'spin up' the required 68 contracts to get me
full time with it, while working this hellish third-shift schedule.
I've already signed on to become a truck driver; I'd make three times
the pay that I am now, love to drive, and it'd give me that 'universal'
skill I could take with me.

    I've been working on this for about two years; it's because I'm
grasping at straws that I've gone public with the idea. I was hoping
something would show up in public analysis that would make it work.

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