Server Price Query

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The wife of a friend of mine works for a small business who are looking to get their systems upgraded. The company that supplies the current system sent them a quote.

I was sent the following spec for the server machines which will consist of three for three sites. They are looking £850 + vat for each server and £1100 + Vat to setup/load the servers. That's the cost before transferring the old system to the new system.

Am I right in thinking it's seems very expensive? VMWare & MySQL server is free is it not?

The old system consisted of one server with all sites connecting to the database via terminal services so I am not sure the purpose of a server database at each site so maybe someone can shed some light to why that might be?

Dell Optiplex 3020 VMWare Hosted MySQL Database Server.
I5 Quad Core Processor
8GB DDR3 RAM
1Gb HD
VMWare Host Operating System
Linux MySQL Server
Windows 7 Pro

 

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The site visit to get everything up and running is another £1000 or more. The current system/server is around 7-8yrs old and the system has been working fine but suffers quite often from very slow terminal service connections and been told that the company isn't supporting the current system any more and have moved onto this new system.

From the information I have been told is the new system requires a database server at each site and they will be linked hence why they need a vpn router like a Draytek at each site, and terminal services will continue to be used.

If I am allowed, I might contact the company myself to get them to explain the new system and how it's going to be deployed.