On Jun 22, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Christopher Niemöller wrote: > Hi, > > I was playing around with some embedded computing and rugged hardware > and got some questions. > > Whats the target price for the school server?
Around 500 USD for a server plus 500GB disk. Networking (access points and switches) are additional (although ideally a four port switch is built in...) > How many school server are needed anyway? One per school... Larger schools need more capable servers. There is no single solution, from a product design perspective. If we concentrate on the needs of smaller rural schools (30-300 kids), we are talking about the $500 server mentioned above, with tough environmental constraints. In this case, we are unfortunately only talking about 5K-10K units per year, and these are spread across multiple countries. > As you might know, its my job to design such systems, please dont take > this questions the wrong way. I dont want to sell anything, but Im > interested in supporting this project. ;) We have no problem with people interested in selling stuff. We need to buy servers ourselves for use in trials, etc... Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
