white-wolf wrote: > Hi, > > Apparently, the era of the Minitel is truly over... > 200€ for an acceptable machine, it's clear that given the price of VPS, > my idea is not profitable... > > Another question, how can I offer a managed IT services for > individuals, more or less on a large scale? That is, adding programs, > updates, security, etc... and everything that the average user doesn't > know or doesn't want to do... > > This way, the end user can focus on using their computer rather than > its maintenance and operation.
There are many such companies; they are called MSPs, Managed Service Providers, and they share the following characteristics: - they want to provide essentially the same IT environment for all clients; otherwise the individual attention gets too expensive - they want to have medium-sized companies as their clients, not individuals. Individual support becomes expensive - they tend to sell hardware, software, and services all together - they are generally Microsoft-focused When the services are customized and provided by a group inside the organization that is the client, we call that an internal IT group. When the services are customized and occasionally attended to by an outside group, rather than maintained daily, we tend to call that an IT consultancy. There are Debian consultancies. There are universities, non-profits and regular corporations which have Debian-focused IT groups -- usually, but not always, as a subset of their general IT groups. I am not aware of a Debian-focused MSP. -dsr-
