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Most people don’t bother refactoring their application and leave whatever IIS garbage they have running on windows 20xx in a cloud instance (to say nothing abou
by master_crab 4y ago
Most people don’t bother refactoring their application and leave whatever IIS garbage they have running on windows 20xx in a cloud instance (to say nothing about the windows licensing cost).
Also universities don’t have the same cost models as companies. Their labs have less money - except those institutions with large endowments - but they all have access to near limitless “slave” labor in the form of grad students and post docs.
- bombcar 4y agoWhen I was involved with univs the labs were bursting at the seams with hardware, because companies abounded who loved nothing more than dumping product on us at cheap or free, especially if we'd get students using it.
- master_crab 4y agoFree stuff always helps. But it’s not the same as cold hard cash.
- bombcar 4y agoOh, certainly. Most of the stuff was kinda useless and we repurposed massive blade servers to host some tens of email accounts, etc.
- yummypaint 4y agoI'm at a university lab and would love some free computing and storage hardware. Any tips?
- bombcar 4y agoWrite letters to companies you're interested in. You should have a relatively standard form letter explaining who you are, what the university is, how great it is, etc, etc. We got a moderate hit rate on those (higher if you consider discounts). Look through donor and alumni records for big name companies.
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoTheft.
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