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 -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:50:27 -0700 From: Derek Neighbors Subject: Re: 20 workstatiions for under $2000? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 der.hans wrote: | Am 11. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Jeremy C. Reed so: |>On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, der.hans wrote: |> |> |>>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