another off topic post!

[jdow]

From: "Ted Kaczmarek" <tedkaz at optonline.net>

> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:35 -0700, bruce wrote:
>> hi...
>>
>> i might be getting 5-10 dell/ibm 1u rack servers (poweredge/eservers) but 
>> i
>> wouldn't need them right now, and was think about renting/leasing them 
>> for a
>> few months until i need them for my project.
>>
>> the boxes range from 2-3GHZ, 512M-1G ram, with different HD. No OS if 
>> that
>> matters.
>>
>> any thoughts as to what a reasonable/good price would be? (i'm in cali if
>> that matters)
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> bruce
>>
> Take the price for them used, divide by 36 and add a few points.

Just off hand the renters may push you VERY hard to install more machines
to continue to support them.
{^_-}