{"id":42,"date":"2009-03-04T17:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/the-razor-business-model-within-it\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:40","slug":"the-razor-business-model-within-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/the-razor-business-model-within-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The razor business model within IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The razor business is said to have premiered the following business model: Sell the razor really cheap, but charge a lot for the blades.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the same in IT isn&#8217;t unusual, the prime examples are Inkjet printers where the printer is ridiculously cheap, but a new ink cartridge costs almost the same as the printer.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco memory is another example.<\/p>\n<p>I just noticed the same with HP&#8217;s new entry-level 1U server, the HP 120G5. We bought one for evaluation purposes for slightly above 500 &euro;. Seems like a decent hardware: 1GB RAM, a Xeon processor and a single SATA harddisk. No frills, no chrome spoilers, just a straight forward server.<\/p>\n<p>But: no on-board remote management. That would be extra. You need to buy the HP DL120 G5 Lights-Out 100c kit. We just plugged one of these into a DL 180, where we really need it. It&#8217;s a very tiny card. Just a PCI-E slot, a RJ45 jack and a single chip:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image43\" src=\"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lo100c.jpg\" alt=\"LO 100c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The price: ~ 200 &euro;.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The razor business is said to have premiered the following business model: Sell the razor really cheap, but charge a lot for the blades. Seeing the same in IT isn&#8217;t unusual, the prime examples are Inkjet printers where the printer is ridiculously cheap, but a new ink cartridge costs almost the same as the printer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-peeves","category-system-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}