In addition to the points previously made, how do you plan to handle "site
licensing", or do you expect there to be need or demand for site licensing?

As others have mentioned, people swap out hard drives.  In two years I had
three hard drives in my (company provided) laptop.  I have five PCs (some
running Windows, some running Linux) in my office.  Three of those (two
Windows, one Linux) have had hard drives changed - not because the hard
drives failed, but because a new, faster controller and a faster drive
extend the life of the machine by making it "faster" (I do a lot of data
analysis, processing many, many gigabytes a day, so CPU speed isn't as
important as I/O throughput, and, odd as it may seem, even disabling the
motherboard's controller and using a PCI EIDE controller of "the same
speed" often results in a significant throughput improvement).

John

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