[Foundation-l] Fundraising season launch

[David Gerard]

On 10/10/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we have +/- 250 servers running now
> *and we double in traffic every four months
> *and the costs per server (for round number purposes, including racks,
> power, etc.) are $4000
> *we are talking about *starting* with a $1M computer order being
> fulfilled before March 1.
> If we add to that the next 500 computers, at the same rate, we are
> talking about a batch of $2M beyond that.  /me's head spins.


Heh. What's the upfront and service contract on an IBM minicomputer -
make that two clustered in different cities - running as many copies
of Linux/390 as we need?

(I wonder if IBM would sponsor that, just to say they had.)


- d.