> Not directly related to your comment but I get the feeling a lot of people complaining about price are navel gazing and have no idea how much a production ser

> Not directly related to your comment but I get the feeling a lot of people complaining about price are navel gazing and have no idea how much a production server costs and how the costs break down. They're not asking for production servers. $5k for a workstation, for a minority architecture, is basically a fancy way of saying "no" to the army of tinkerers you need to widen the base.