rental servers?

[Bill Freeman]

Bill McGonigle writes:
 > Here's a strange question - has anyone heard of a service that provides 
 > short-term server rentals?
 > 
 > This is for benchmarking an application on a machine for a client who's 
 > not interested in purchasing a dual-xeon with two gigs of RAM and phat 
 > SCSI disks just for benchmarking, but would be interested in renting 
 > one for a few days to see how their application performs on it.
...

	It may be that some vender who believes that they may get a
sale down the road if the benchmark numbers are good enough would
provide some time for free.  Things certainly used to work that way
for big iron, but then, it's a brave new world out there.

							Bill