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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!hustle.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.clark.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news.unicomp.net!cbbrowne From: cbbrowne@dantzig.brownes.org (Christopher B. Browne) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,misc.consumers Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 8 Aug 1996 04:10:02 GMT Organization: UniComp Technologies International Corp -- Internet Service Lines: 30 Message-ID: <slrn50ipqh.a9.cbbrowne@dantzig.brownes.org> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <stephenkDvp30A.366@netcom.com> <4u7hv4$jcd@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <slrn50epup.vrk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <4u9oeg$91j@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <32093E50.39EB@aloha.net> Reply-To: cbbrowne@conline.com NNTP-Posting-Host: digital21.unicomp.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.3 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:19977 comp.os.linux.development.system:29344 comp.os.linux.x:37523 comp.os.linux.hardware:46851 comp.os.linux.setup:67693 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:991 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4527 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4290 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25120 misc.consumers:93872 In article <32093E50.39EB@aloha.net>, DuckHunter wrote: >Yes, you could buy a commercial server, but the fact remains that when >you buy a piece of hardware, you don't expect to have to shell out $100 >just to use it! The project I'm on is one where the hardware probably represents 10% of the total bill for the project. Software represents probably 35%-40% of the total. And the other ~50% represents the cost of paying people to do configuration and programming work to get the computer system working. All of this represents "educated guesses." I'm not sure of any of the individual figures, and not even of the total. There's likely a couple of million dollars worth of hardware, in any case.) It is not unusual to have to shell out money to make hardware useful; in fact, it's fairly unusual *not* to have to shell out money to make it useful. Mind you, the email that I most recently saw come out of Matrox seemed rather contradictory. It seemed to imply that they had a problem with the idea of organizations trying to set up NDAs, when I thought that the problem was that they didn't want to deal with anyone *not* willing to sign an NDA. -- Christopher B. Browne, cbbrowne@conline.com, chris_browne@sdt.com Web: http://www.conline.com/~cbbrowne SAP Basis Consultant, UNIX Guy, Linux Guy. "Windows? Ah... The Athena Project from MIT..."