Dear Tony:
Did you ever take the Compaq Alphaserver server configurator and price guide computation PC software and configure a server? You would notice that they include such things as racks, line printers, tape drives, communication servers, ethernet switches, power supplies, cabling, controllers, etc. All the things you forget to include in such server costs! It includes even outside racks filled with fibre channel drives, consoles, CRT and LCD screens, and printing consoles (like LA-120 types still in use today). Even allows the generation of 1 CPU servers with a maximum of 32 in that type. Many have stated here and elsewhere that typically these 4 way and 8 way boxes ship with only one or two CPUs. Oh and you talk that if Compaq sells something for $X, the vendor gets all of it when it is clear that the vendor receives far less than 100%. A simple thing like a memory upgrade (nearly industry standard modules) of 1GB costing $11,000. Yes their vendor gets 50 times the current going rate. Not bloody likely!
Tony, you should eat what you are shoveling at others. It isn't pleasant.
Pete |
