Construction firm extolls virtues of Dell's blades

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10 servers

Doing nothing but email and print spooling (I did see some SQLserver - but not how much). That's 10 M$ Windoze licenses and with Citrix, 10 Citrix licences (plus 10 Exchange and 10 SQLserver licenses). That adds up to quite a bit of cash! Using a Linux solution eliminates ALL of those license fees - and probably can do the same amount of work using only 5 servers.

Hardware costs are the SMALLEST costs in this scenario! Saving a few bucks by buying blades is DWARFED by the overwhelming software costs (and maintenance). This guy sounds penny-wise and pound foolish - he's found ONE solution that works for him, and he thinks its the BEST solution (typical CIO-type).

So the reason he bought 2 blade "racks" is for future expansion - when the business needs more capacity for email - and the pathetically unscalable Exchange requires an entirely NEW server for another few employees . . .

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 07/13/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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