> 1500 for samba, How many thousands of dollars of sgi hardware does
> it take to outperform 1500 dollars of intel box running samba for
> ZERO???
You're not reading the print correctly, and SGI isn't embarking on an Evil Plot to corrupt Open Source. Samba is still available for free, or as you say, ZERO (at e.g. freeware.sgi.com -- precompiled binaries, runs on 6.2-6.5 ).
Of course, now that the Samba author is actually *paid* by SGI (while continuing to write for the Open Source version you'll run on Linux) I do expect it to run fairly well on SGI platforms ;).
Samba *media* and manuals, plus the Samba SWAT web administration front-end, which apparently *you* do not seem to need, is $300. You still get the source, so if you want to support it yourself, have it supported by someone outside SGI, or just use comp.sys.sgi.* for support purposes, that's all you'll be paying.
Official *support* through SGI support channels for Samba is, *per year* $1500.
> Yesterday I finally received a number nine revolution 4 video card.
I hope you've got the openLDI version with the Silicon Graphics 1600SW
flat panel ;) |
