[SAC] Server host quotes

[Jason Birch]

I've just had a follow-up call from PEER1 and they are willing to waive
the setup fees.  

You have the contact info for the PEER1 sales rep in the quote; should I
let him know that Tyler will be following up?

If we are worried about ongoing costs, we could save some recurring fees
by going to a lower hardware level.  I like the idea of a firewall, but
only because I'm Linux-impaired.  I would think that we might also want
a VPN connection between that server and Telascience so that our LDAP
queries are encrypted point-to-point, but it would also be possible just
to set up a firewall rule to only allow queries to/from those hosts.

Do we really want to commit to three years?  I hate doing that with my
cellphone...

Jason 

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:18
To: sac at sac.osgeo.org
Cc: robert.bray at autodesk.com
Subject: Re: [SAC] Server host quotes

Tyler,

Before we start renegotiation's with a vendor I want our Sysadmin to
review the proposals. This should happen late this week. In the mean
time it would be great to have input from the SAC membership.

Bob