[Ansteorra] SCA membership dues - another view

[Carl Chipman]

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Nope.  Most of the time companies get the better prices.  If they don't, they aren't being fiscally smart and leveraging their superior buying power. As a matter of fact, anytime I find a computer for X amount, and go to Dell, they give me an equivalent computer for X - 1% give or take. Why? Company.

Case in point $3400 is a new server from Dell with Raid Level 5, 160 GB of Storage, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, APC backup, and Windows Server 2000 with 5 client licenses.  We just bought one

A personal computer (fully loaded with Office and Windows XP/2000) should be around $1200 in an office environment, leaving around $3800 of money for virus removal.  That's a lot.  Granted, they may be having to remove viruses from computers and reinstalling software, but $3800 is a weeks worth of pay (in California) for a EXPENSIVE consultant. Heck I could fly out there in a week and fix it and fly back and still be making VERY good money.

Jean Paul de Sens


Carl Chipman
Nomadics, Inc.
cchipman at nomadics.com
http://www.nomadics.com


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> it's definitely time to force "our emperor and the senate" to become
> more fiscally responsible with OUR money (by the by, did you note the
> $5000 for a replacement computer and virus removal listed later in
> teh document ... don't know about you, but it's been *many* years
> since i spent $5K for a business class computer and antivirus
> package.

It depends upon what that breaks down to...and what they purchases...
lots of times companies have to pay more for licenses than individuals
do...

>
> 'wolf

Lorraine

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