[plug] Call for linmag Content! - saving $5k

[Shayne]

Hmm I could rewrite my "The $70 webserver" rant I did for the student guilds 
alternative handbook, on how the guild serves 20+ pcs/macs from a recycled 
p200+96meg  (actually p233 underclocked for stability.. quirky motherboard at 
233)  with webserver getting at peak 60 visits an hour, aprox 90-100 emails 
an hour, 13 highly active email lists, a (currently silent) chatline, samba , 
netatalk, a now silent mush server, a graphic designer with an unfortunate 
habit of running photoshops scratch off the network share (grrr), a guild 
president with a 70meg inbox (I won't let him use IMAP and he wont let me put 
him on POP, so it's PINE all the way.. go figure our agendas here!). and a 
sysadmin(me) with a chronic case of the blinkenlight fiddlies. The $70 price 
came from what we would of paid if we bought the second hand bits. The price 
is a little more now since we added a 80gig drive. Must confess tho that the 
machine is starting, as one person put it recently, to "have its arse hang 
out somewhat". It's been a stunning example of freakishly good value over the 
year, tho perhaps its time for an upgrade!.

On Sunday 29 December 2002 06:42, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Saturday 28 December 2002 06:24 pm, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > Anyone able to write about how they saved their client $5000 using open
> > source software?  8^)
>
> Maybe. One client is looking at saving circa $30k by using PostgreSQL in
> place os MS SQL Server. That pays for a *lot* of hardware.
>
> Cheers; Leon