Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Tue Jun 5 14:33:04 CDT 2007
Well again John we have the advantage. We get all the software real cheap as a University. MOSS is approx just over $1000 per server. Hardware funny we got 4 servers recently for $8000 each. I assume the other servers we are running where about the same. Then you have the Windows 2003 server licence, SharePoint dev tools, VS 2005 and the training costs. I was on a 5 day course last week on admin of MOSS at $1000 a day. At the moment we have SQL Server 2005 physical machine. Windows Server 2003 OS 2 Web application Servers 1 Index Server We have 4 additional servers to go in. I would say an SQL Server mirror, tow more web front ends and maybe another index server but we are meeting MS to discuss this sort of thing. We have one dev box and likely get another. We also have several VMs for playing about with. Again our licence costs are low. We have arranged about $160,000 in consultancy fees for assistance in the move to MS technology and have direct access to MS techies as well. Just logged into the box to get a spec for you. here it is Windows Server 2003 R2 XEON GHZ Processor 3GB of RAM This is the admin box which doubles as one of the web front end machines. The other web front end box would be the same I would guess. The SQL boxes would also be around this spec. Its likely the two front end boxes will be changed out later as we already had these in place and not really speced for SP. But we have nothing but SP and SQL Server in these systems. Oh plus usual dev stuff. At the moment the HDD is fairly small as it will all be put into our SAN. My team is me business design and MOSS server admin and general functionality 1 real good developer 1 really good dev and design guy for the web front ends to the sites. We have access to a team of server admins and database experts for internal systems. So yeah its a big overhead for us to even attempt this. You should visit show you it all in place. (<: Bring the kids, stay here. Martin Martin WP Reid Training and Assessment Unit Riddle Hall Belfast tel: 02890 974465 ________________________________ From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of jwcolby Sent: Tue 05/06/2007 20:14 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] This on SharePoint Sounds awesome. What is the total cost of the system, hardware / software? What is the hardware - Number of servers, processors, memory, hard disk array sizes etc? What is the software - OS, SQL Server version, etc. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin Reid Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:56 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] This on SharePoint Inline information based on our expereince to date, Martin WP Reid Training and Assessment Unit Riddle Hall Belfast tel: 02890 974465 ________________________________ From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Eric Barro Sent: Tue 05/06/2007 19:46 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] This on SharePoint With SP efficiency or productivity is measured in the following ways: 1. How fast the end user can access his data given the fact that it may be in Word, Excel, Access, PDF or any other format. Instant 2. How quickly the end user can collaborate with other users given the fact that each will have access to their information via SP. Instant 3. How easy it is for the user to upload his data files to SP without knowing about FTP. Flise Save As 4. How easy it is for users to synchronize their copy of an Excel spreadsheet stored in SP. Instant 5. How easy it is for users to quickly view the team's event calendar to determine timelines and resources. Instant 6. How easy it is for users to load their browser, navigate to the SP URL, login to the site and have access to the information that team members have access to as well. Instant - Use a shortcut 7. How easy it is for users to be notified of any changes (adds/updates) to site content whenever it happens in real time. Instant via email. 8. How easy it is for administrators or team managers to create a team site for collaboration, discussion, document management with zero programming by using features right out of the box. two mins to do inclusing security. 9. How easy it is for administrators or team managers to grant site access. Instant using AD 10. How easy it is for administrators to provide for all these servers without having to wait on the programming team to design and develop all that functionality. All of the above is out of the box. None of the above is an issue Martin -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com/> -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com/>