Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:42:53 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, Domingo Siliceo <dsiliceo@adam.es>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions? Message-ID: <199607171942.MAA12521@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:28:03 PDT." <199607171928.MAA00328@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" : >> >> Now, go price 3 copies of NT Server plus the 1000 user commercial pop >> package you'll have to buy along with the relevant DNS, News and >> SLIP/PPP software (also throw in NFS so that you can eventually share >> filesystems with that SGI Challenge machine you've got your lustful >> eyes on and will buy once you hit 500 users to take some of the load >> off). See the total you're quoted. Suffer heart failure. Be revived > >Do you know how much the above setup would cost? > >Tnks, > Amancio It's actually not the important figure to look at. Initial hardware and software costs are a miniscule portion of the cost of deploying any system on this scale. If you can show that solution X takes less time to install, is easier to configure, is easier to upgrade, and requires minimal staff training time to use, (along with being robust and fast, etc) you'll get people to listen. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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