20030501: Question related to Community Equipment Awards

>From:  "Hansen, Anthony R. " <address@hidden>
>Organization:  St. Cloud State
>Keywords:  200305011956.h41Ju27U024026 egrants

Hi Tony,

I am sorry that I was unable to get to your inquiry before now, but I
was taking a much needed mini-vacation.  I have spoken to Steve
Chiswell about his responses to your inquiries, and I am under the
impression that you have had your questions answered.

Please let me know if you continue to have questions about the hardware
option you are investigating for St. Cloud State.

Cheers,

Tom

>    I just left a voice mail message with you, but will try the e-mail
>route as well.  I just have a couple of questions that you can probably
>answer.  My colleague, Alan Anderson, suggested you'd be the best person
>to answer my question.
>
>    We are in process of completing a proposal to submit to the
>Community Equipment Awards program.  As you probably know, we do not
>have a systems administrator in our department and Alan has been filling
>that role for years.  At the same time we have a pressing need to
>increase the number of desktop stations available for student use in our
>weather lab without increasing the administrative overhead to keep them
>running.  As a result, we're proposing to obtain a new Sun server and a
>number of additional thin clients to run off this single platform in
>order to solve both of our problems.  We currently are running 2 thin
>clients (Sun Ray 1's) off an existing E250 server and they seem to work
>quite well.
>
>    My question is:  Are you aware of any other universities that have
>taken or are taking this route?  If anyone has done this, I'd be curious
>what their experience has been.  If no one has done it, is there a
>reason?  :-)
>
>    I'm sending this both to your e-mail address and the generic support
>address in hopes of finding you.  If it's convenient to communicate by
>e-mail, that's fine.  Otherwise I should be at my desk for the balance
>of the day and most of tomorrow (finishing my proposal!) if it's more
>convenient to call.  It shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes.  Thanks!!
>
>Tony
>
>Tony Hansen
>Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
>St. Cloud State University
>720 Fourth Avenue South
>St. Cloud, MN  56301
>
>Phone:  320-255-2009=20
>Fax:    320-255-4262=20

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