AR requested more detail on cost of virtual server. Talked with Greg and looked at previous arrangements. Turns out that in addition to the cost of the hardware, there is the cost of the VMWare licence each year and the cost of sys-admin maintenance. We can reduce the VMWare licence cost from $1000/year to 0 by not allowing any administrative or commercial material on the server. We can negotiate the amount and frequency of payments to sys-admins starting from $1500/year (i.e. we could probably work out a better overall cost if we paid one lump sum). I don't know what the dean's priorities are, so just laid out the options and gave him recommendations 'all other things being equal'.