Assuming the upper end of that--for a lab with 10 researchers (forget the students, postdocs, etc. for a second), you could save maybe half the cost by hiring a

Assuming the upper end of that--for a lab with 10 researchers (forget the students, postdocs, etc. for a second), you could save maybe half the cost by hiring a single IT person to do this. Aside from their sb client, I don't see anything in this that can't be downloaded and installed (either from source or automagically from any of the freely available science-related R, Python, etc. repos). Neat idea, I just find it difficult to justify a $1000/mo per-machine cost, especially in academia.