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).
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