[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

[Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)]

I wonder what the cost of the 3500's was?  I have a hard enough time proving
upgrade costs for our existing equipment.
Anyway,  Seems like there is plenty of rack options out there for less than
the Compaq price also....

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	ds [SMTP:ds at primenet.com]
	Sent:	Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:21 PM
	To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
	Subject:	[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

	We have two E3500's that are used within a production surrounding
where
	people are shuffling around them everyday.  I would like to see them
in
	a rack, up off the floor and out of the way (possibly in the air
	conditioned, fire protected computer room about 30' away).
Currently we
	straddle them down on the floor under a table when we need to use
them
	(what a way to treat a couple 3500's).

	Since Sun's rack config starts at $7,500 dollars... I was thinking
of
	purchasing a PC rack to place it in.  We use Compaq 19" racks
($2,500)
	for all our PC servers (we have a total of about 12 Compaq racks in
	toll).  My thought would be to purchase the floor kits for the
E3500's
	($100 ea.) and then place them on four way mounted shelves in the
lower
	portion of the Compaq rack.  Since we need the monitor and keyboards
at
	a remote location (about 40' away) we could purchase the 10m
	keyboard/monitor expansion kit ($75 ea.).  Then place a cheap 220
	terminal in the rack as a console for both units... total cost...
about
	$3,300 w/tax (I said about).

	Any thoughts?

	BTW - Before you say it... I know we should do the right thing and
buy
	the Sun rack.  I live in a PC world at work... I was placed on the
cross
	when I managed to purchase the first Sun (I was required to write 3
	documents outlining why it wasn't a Microsoft based product).  Some
	people STILL are not happy with me 2 years later.  I finally have
	managed to get 11 Sun's in an environment of 4,500 PC's... it's been
a
	rough and lonely road (play Violin here).  There is NO WAY I will
get
	them to lay out that much cash for a Sun rack.

	Dean
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