Re: A Question about reqirements to run wdsci

I am getting a similar machine in the next couple weeks except with 15K
Raided HD's and am curious to know what you paid for yours?  Our company
contracts with an Intel Certified hardware specialist whenever we put
together a developer PC (5 PC's in the last two months) and get what I would
consider good rates if you factor that Dell ships thousands of PC's a year.

I believe we are getting ours for around $1800 - $2200 a piece (just
machine, no monitor/mouse/keyboard).  Let me know if anyone in the MN area
wants to have their contact info as we are very pleased with our machines to
date.

The reason I digressed above is to get estimates on what a company
could/should invest per developer to keep them incredibly productive.
Instead of buying a $800 desktop, which would definitely have some
horsepower but will only last a few years, we have decided to buy a machine
that will last around four years.  Split the cost of a $2200 machine over
four years and calculate time saved waiting for things to process and you
EASILY pay for the machine IMO.  Of course I look at it from a consulting
perspective and billable hours, but the same could be put into not having to
hire the 5th developer in a shop because the current four are so productive
with their machines.  Or maybe a better way to look at it is each day they
come in and start programming they don't have to wait 15 minutes for things
to start up.  Take 15 minutes times 5 days a week times 50 weeks a year and
you get 62.5 hours! (hopefully I calculated that right)

Of course one can only justify that expense if the developer is actually
using the horsepower many hours of the day (meaning they have fully embraced
WDSC).  If they spend the majority of their time in SEU then I wouldn't be
able to justify the expense.

Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com



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Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] A Question about reqirements to run wdsci

Dell Precision PWS380
Dual Core Processor 3.2 GHz
4 Gb of RAM
80 Gb harddrive.

I can run mutliple instances of WDSC, including RSE for RPG editing, and
another for Java development running a server as well.  Wickedly fast, the
splash screen comes and goes in seconds.  Knock on wood, haven't had a
hitch.

Ron Power
Programmer
Information Services
City Of St. John's, NL
P.O. Box 908
St. John's, NL
A1C 5M2
709-576-8132
rpower@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.stjohns.ca/
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