[geeks] Sun-HOWTO

Bill Bradford geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Oct 18 23:02:30 CDT 2001


On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:48:26PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> That means an initial cash outlay of $5,597,600, not including networking
> gear, which probably needs to be better than average for the SunRays, but
> shouldn't be a problem with how many network interfaces can be stuffed in
> a SunFire.  That comes to $2,430 per seat.  About the same as for a PC,
> except the network needs to be a bit better, but there should be great
> savings on support staff.  

$2300?  I know the place I work for probably spends less than $1K on 
our "normal" desktop winblows machines, considering a volume purchasing
discount from Compaq...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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