At 10:56 AM 12/2/2006, Hans wrote:

>For the amount of traffic I see coming through (FireBird+IBO), it looks like
>a box with a 286 CPU or higher
>running Linux would be more than sufficient. Bet many of us have been
>recycling such equipment lately. No
>more advertising to wade through :) What else would be required ?

Equipment is NEVER the problem with these situations. The two most
expensive/troublesome areas are:

1) acquiring and paying for reliable and adequate network bandwidth.
Network access is the one technical resource that is NOT coming down in
price as time goes on. No Moore's Law there. Just greedy big businesses.

2) acquiring and paying for someone's attention to maintain the system.
People are an expensive component. I think they always will be.