Rob Beezer wrote: > William Stein wrote:
> > * No license fees or budget hassles. > * Easy setup for a central notebook server. > * Rapid startup time to productive student use. I don't have any marketing ideas at the moment beyond what has already been mentioned. However, I do have to say that if there was a reasonably-priced, pre-configured sage notebook server box from Sun, it would be *very* tempting (emphasis on the "reasonably-priced" above, though :). Such a box would be very tempting if: * you could run multiple notebooks with proper security layers between themselves and the system. * it was trivial to upgrade all of the notebooks or just some of them. * you could also do development on some of the notebooks. * all (or at least most) optional spkgs worked * it would be easy for IT to administer the server centrally (e.g., a rack version, as well as a standalone box version) I've set up servers for various classes based on old boxes that were laying around. I've been asked to set up more servers, but didn't have the time to continue administering them and configuring them. In particular, since they were running on old computers, the computers kept breaking or burning out, and I couldn't deal with trying to reset up the environment. If there were a simple pre-configured box that one could buy, I'd be telling people that would like to have their own server. I'd definitely look into buying one at my university! Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
