20 workstatiions for under $2000?

Being a long time fisherperson, it would seem that:

1) When chumming the waters, dollars tend to attract.

2) When setting the hook, demonstrations are in order.

3) When landing, specifications are important.

YMMV

George

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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:50:27 -0700
From: Derek Neighbors <derek@gnue.org>
Subject: Re: 20 workstatiions for under $2000?

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der.hans wrote:
| Am 11. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Jeremy C. Reed so:
|>On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, der.hans wrote:
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|>>There will also be demos of the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
which
|>>can provide 20 fast workstations for under $2000, OpenOffice.org's =
office
|>
|>This caught my attention.
|
|
| I'm actually understating it as well. Brian setup a classroom with 30
| desktops ( P100 to P233, I think ) and a $1500 server that was =
supposedly
| much more powerful than it needed to be. That was a year ago, so
prices have
| also dropped...

When talking LTSP I would avoid mentioning dollar amounts directly
because they can vary so much. Instead, I would mention machine
specifications.

| He worked with donated boxen and that doesn't include infrastructure =
(
| switches, networking, etc. ), so I stayed with 20 workstations to =
give us
| some leeway. He says all 20 workstation fly as far as usage.
|
| The demo I saw had a P75 that flat blew away my 900MHz athlon.
|
| As I put in another post, I hope we can have a 6 station node setup
for the
| InstallFest. More stations if we have deskspace in the demo area.

We really need someone to do (or to find) to do would be best. A case
study on LTSP here in Phoenix. That details out what the situation was
before. What it was after. What the cost was and what the savings =
were.

- -Derek