Re: [Ejbca-develop] rough estimation

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Hans,
There is another option to consider as well.

If you are targeting an external market of employee/member certificates
you could run the CA as a "Cloud Service" where external administrators
perform the the actual RA tasks.  Then your work is limited to running
a secure service; not verifying that people are what they claim to be :-)

Just my 2 öres

Anders
PrimeKey tech support

On 2012-07-17 23:14, Hans Witvliet wrote:
> Hi Tomas, Martin, andreas, Tham, rshad and all others...
> 
> Yes, i think i've got the rough picture.
> 
>>From a hardware/software p.o.v. its complication compares with a
> telephone exchange, (between singe server and datacenter full of
> equipment)
> 
> @Tomas: no i don't underestimate the costs of an HSM, but these are
> well-known expensive, but you get value/safety for money.
> otoh the amount of hours needed for a project is (from what i know)
> always vastly under estimated. With the well known end results:
> - unfinished projects
> - going over budget
> - unpaid overtime.
> 
> At least now i'm convinced that if it comes this far, i'll not be
> tempted to give estimations myself (towards a customer), but leave that
> to someone more experienced in managing projects.
> 
> thank you all very much indeed.
> 
> Hans
> 
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