It's short money for a great outcome. If it's all set up at the same time, it hardly costs any more than the cost of the machine. Our whole school is now combined on a Novell 4 network. We are one large system with about 25 PC's and 80-ish Mac's. Administratively, all PC's.
Education is a combo.
Of course we had some things before this started. It's hard to say though because so much is in that figure. We have five buildings that are all wired inside and connected by fiber optic through underground conduits. We put in over 400 drops with about 100 cable TV connections. We have an ISDN Internet connection and a First Class email server.