hmm... I don't mean to rain on parades, but these figures seem kinda high to me.
Tiger Direct (here in Raleigh) is running a deal where you can get a 3.03ghz celeron w/256K cache, 1GIG of memory in a case (with power-supply) for $79.99. So - $2K for a PC seems awfully pricy these days. Dell sells their bottom-of-the-line "server" for $399.99. 100g-bit switches are usually around $59 at CompUSA. And - is there a reason not to just use one of the Intel boxes as the firewall? That would be $80 + $40 for a brand new IDE drive. I suppose my point is that you can pay whatever you want for a PC these days... of course, you get what you pay for. Even so, I would think that someone doing a big purchase could drive an awfully hard bargain out of a white-box distributor, and get much better prices than these... > I just returned from an IT Financial conference where I contrasted the > costs between running the 45 servers on Intel versus the z/900. I took > very conservative costs for the Intel machines ($2K per server), Switches > ($10K), and Firewalls ($10K) and all with no support (this $0). - Dave Rivers - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390