That's a cool solution

I am really bad with VB, but I may consider this, just for the fun of it.
Fortunately, I was actually having a very "corporate" approach to "unexpensive". So, I am in fact ok with spending 100-200 Euros on something that reliably lets me measure temp in the server room. As long as it is good. Really. Meaning: doing well what it is asked to do, "forever".
I found
this, which is more expensive than what I was planning to spend, but I may be convincing myself to spend that money, once I decide it is a really good device.
Does anybody know this thing?
Also, I found
this really cheap sensor, which supposedly can be controlled by simple windows software.