That isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things, actually. After all, there's a lot more costs involved. When I was doing the flea market, I needed 100% margins. Remember also, the main customer base is more used to click and point - ie, less technically savvy, ie, needing more help. There are a lot worse things, like the F5 load balancers that's just a 1.2 ghz PIII that retails for $42k. Or worse yet, the nortel contivity, which was $30k -after- discount. We opened it up, just a freaking 700mhz PIII. It was such a cheap mb that it still had the integrated audio jacks on it.
I could have set up a similar set of servers, but it would have taken up some of my time, and I rather let the exchange folks (one of which told me in all seriousness that sendmail, as compared with exchange, was simply not enterprise ready. Unfortunately for interteam feelings, I burst out laughing at his face) screw around on their own than for them to keep pointing their fingers at my "home built" servers. On 1/21/07, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the barracuda boxes are rusty stinky old redhat with spamassassin and > some web interface. > > at least, they used to be about a year or two ago We evaluated their top of the line model a year and a half ago. 15,000CAN$ for a crappy 1U i386 machine with Realtek 8139 NICs in it. I just about pissed myself laughing when I saw that. Needless to say, we didn't purchase their product. -- Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
