Well, you are in the wrong place.  While Dell does have some support agents on the server boards, they are not in a position to field your request.  You would need to contact Dell corporate directly. I would suggest a fund-raiser or communicating the urgent need for small donations to the school to parents and the community, including businesses. 30K is much more of a hardware budget than many individual schools in the States, so I would think you'll be able to make due for the urgent necessities you mentioned, including a base amount of memory for your 2950's. "some of the families are so poor even they can't afford to purchase apps such as Adobe CS4/CS5 Let alone Windows." I'm sorry - and I truly don't say this to be rude - but this is a completely ridiculous statement.  CS costs MANY MANY times more than any Windows product and is NOT a necessity in a child's learning.  MOST families are too "poor" to purchase something like CS and should NOT be expected to.  There are other tools out there that are better priced that can be used when budgets are tight, especially when the family is expected to purchase it. Good luck. 
Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well? This is my first post on the Dell forum and I apologise for the nature of the post and if it breaches any rules then I am sorry. I work for the IT department for a school in Cookridge in Leeds, West Yorkshire and basically, the school has next to no money in the budget for I.T hardware so we are struggling to keep the current school IT kit going, although we are getting there. Basically, what it is, is that we have four unused Dell Power Edge 2950 servers with little or no memory and what I was wondering was is that - does anybody know off a way to get free/donated memory so we can boost the kit up? Would Dell (through the kindness of their heart) donate some memory? Having said that, we are also short on storage space (we really are rock bottom), Desktop/Laptops (memory as well), LT05 tapes, Keyboards, Mice, External storage etc I have had a look around via Google and asked around locally but it's pretty much been a no go. I have worked in schools for last 5 years in and around Yorkshire and some of the schools have got millions for I.T. but not this one. Our next year's budget is just £30k which is nothing in real terms and we really do want to do something for the school especially the kids. It's their education we are looking at. It's even got the point were we are testing dual booting the desktops that we have with Linux/Windows to give the students the option at looking at free/alternative  Applications/OS's as some of the families are so poor even they can't afford to purchase apps such as Adobe CS4/CS5 Let alone Windows. Regards Craig
re: School short of money so I'm looking for help with server memory.