Do we have any info on the current level of SAS usage on Unixgen?  If not, 
maybe we could:

1. get of list of people who've connected to Unixgen since its upgrade
2. ask them if they've used SAS there over the past 12 months
3. if they have used SAS there, ask what difficulties they might have in 
switching to RedHawk

Steve

At 02:19 PM 4/17/2006, you wrote:
>Here are some options for SAS:
>
>Unixgen:  on December 1 we will have to pay 4273.0 to upgrade to 8 cpus 
>and to renew the license. The estimated
>maintenance cost is 4180 per year.
>
>For Linux:
>
>An 8 cpu license (4 nodes) cost 5340.0 initial fee and 4112 annual 
>maintenance (estimated)
>
>In addition, Enterprise Miner has  a set fee of 7150 (initial cost) and 
>3101 annual maintenance. I believe this will be the cost to add it
>to Unixgen as well.
>
>So we can get it for either machine, but difficult to get it for both. The 
>advantage of installing it on the
>cluster will be two-fold. Users will not have space problems and we can 
>use software money to pay for the
>initial fee (Enterprise Miner and new Linux SAS).
>
>I am open to suggestions.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jaime E. Combariza, Ph.D.
>Assistant Director Research Computing
>http://www.muohio.edu/researchcomputing
>Miami University
>(513) 529-5080