[K12OSN] LTSP vs PC
Terrell Prude', Jr.
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Wed Mar 31 23:38:02 UTC 2004
I know. That's what I've been letting people in my district know for
over a year now, but they'd rather spend the $30K (actually, closer to
$40K in our case) for Windows PCs than spend $2K to $6K on a K12LTSP
box. We already have the infrastructure (Gig-E fiber, switched 100Mbps
to the desktop) to support this. Each of our ESs has, at a minimum, two
computer labs, and most of them have three or four. Consider this, folks:
Spend $3K per lab to upgrade it to K12LTSP, instead of the
aforementioned $30K for Windows PCs. That's a $27K savings per lab.
You have, let's say, three labs in ES's on average. That's $81K.
Folks, that's enough to fund a new teacher for two years. Now imagine
it on the high school level.
I just don't understand the resistance to that kind of business case,
especially when we're in a $40+ million budget shortfall. Anyone?
--TP
Caleb Wagnon wrote:
>The price of a 30 seat pc lab I'll say could be around $30,000. I see at
>penguin computing you can build a quad opteron 64 server with 32gb ram, scsi
>drive, and gig nics for the same price. That could possibly leverage over 600
>terminals!!
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