[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Chris Forsythe]

I'm wondering if we'd be better off buying a bunch of mac mini's and  
putting them on a tray. Would we get more bang for the buck out of  
one machine, or 3 machines that cost the same as the one (just pulled  
the figure out of the air, haven't even looked at pricing).

  I know that we'll want to speak to their sales team and I bet we  
can get a discount over the phone. I called once and the phone  
recording said something about buying 2 xserves and getting one for  
free.

Anyhow, I'd be up for whatever, it would be nice to have an xserve,  
I'm just curious as to whether we need one. I'd wait until 10.5 is  
out, since we'd want 10.5 server more than likely for things like the  
new fancy calendaring setup.

Chris

On Aug 19, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Thanks to a -very- generous donor (I don't know yet whether he  
> wants to remain anonymous or not, so I'll keep it that way for  
> now), we have the funds to get an XServe, for which Thomas of  
> Network Redux has awesomely promised us free hosting with rack  
> space.  I think we'll get quite a few tangibles from having a  
> powerful OS X based server. Colin has offered to set up and  
> administer an automated build environment for automatic compilation  
> and testing of commits.  We've discussed previously running a  
> Jabber server for use by Adium developers... and so on.
>
> The real question, I think, is timing.  Looking at http:// 
> buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Xserve you can see that it's been 2  
> weeks over a year since the last XServe line refresh by Apple.  My  
> gut is that it's worth waiting a bit - it looks like the next chip  
> for the XServe will most likely be a quad-core chip with some  
> significantly improved performance.  What do y'all think?
>
> Finally, does anyone have an ADC Select or Premiere hardware  
> discount they aren't planning to use this year and would be willing  
> to let us use to be able to further upgrade the new machine as we  
> order it, whenever we decide to do that?
>
> Cheers,
> Evan