x86 Costs:

- Base server price for HP DL380G5 with 2 x Intel Xeon 5150 2.66GHz processors, 8 x 1GB FB-DIMMs, Slimline DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive, 2 x 146GB 10k rpm SAS, RAID 1, Redundant PSUs, 2 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet. From HP Store, www.hp.com, 01/17/08

- OS price for 1 year RHEL subscription, 1-2 Sockets, 9-5 coverage. From HP DL380G5 pricing on HP Store, www.hp.com, 12/17/07

- Virtualization price for VMware Infrastructure Standard 2P license with 1 year coverage. From HP DL380G5 pricing on HP Store, www.hp.com, 12/17/07

- 1GbE price for PCI-Express Dual Port Gigabit Server Adaptor. From HP DL380G5 pricing on HP Store, www.hp.com, 12/17/07

- Crypto Acceleration price for Sun Crypto Accelerator 6000. From Sun Store pricing www.sun.com 12/17/07

- LOM price for iLO Select Pack. From HP DL380G5 pricing on HP Store, www.hp.com, 12/17/07

- 430 watts at peak power calculated from http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp, with above server base configuration + 2 x PCI-E cards needed to deliver equivalent functionality to Sun T2000

Sun Fire and Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 Costs:

- Base server price for Sun Fire / Sun SE T2000 with 1 x 4 Core UltraSPARC T1 1.0GHz processor, 8 x 1GB FB-DIMMs, Slimline DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive, 2 x 73GB 10k rpm SAS, RAID 0 &1, Redundant PSUs, 4 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet. From www.sun.com, 1/13/09

- Base server price includes OS license, LDoms and Containers for virtualization, 2 x 10Gigbit Ethernet ports, cryptograhic accelerators and ILOM

- Solaris support pricing from http://www.sun.com/service/subscriptions/index.jsp

- 265 watts at peak power calculated from http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/calc/index.jsp#calc, with above server base configuration.

Power costs based on World Wide average cost of 13 cents per kWhr. Data gathered from the World Energy Organization which takes into consideration energy costs in the US (avg. 5-10 cents/kWh), Europe (avg. 15 – 20 cents/kWhr), Japan (15-20 cents/kWhr). HVAC calculated as 100% additional cost over power costs