On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:43:12AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
>Quoting andy at theasis.com (andy at theasis.com):
>> > Quoting Andrew Nemchenko (drew at usfamily.net):
>> > > A great Idea but how do we go about achieving this with out spending too much
>> > > money?
>> > 
>> > You get every single tclug member to commit to having a vm-linux and
>> > pay some monthly fee for it. :-)

I fail to see how it could be cost effective. Wouldn't it be cheaper for and
easier for real-time to provide the pipe and the rack space for a few dozen
SMP intel boxes all setup with virtual domains. I think the luggers would save
money by doing it this way.

>> 
>> Since "every single" is not really practical, can you give ballpark of
>> total costs that need to be recovered initially/monthly, and maybe
>> napkin-figurings like "we can cover costs with 20 people paying
>> about $XX/month"?
>
>Well, I want "ever single" computer to run linux too....
>
>Let Clay get the poll up. Let me finish my Linux conference presentations (yes,
>more then 1) and  then I can put up some numbers. 
>
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