[ale] Semi-OT: Atl/Ga hardware vendors?

[Jeff Hubbs]

As long as there are good shops in town, I figure that if I give them my
business, it keeps at least some of the money I spend local as opposed
to sending it to Texas - and have some of it get spent on that
"Dude,..." guy.

Besides, I'd rather be able to get the people who are responsible for
filling my order on the phone, and avoiding proprietary hardware with
closed (or no) drivers.  As much as I liked working with a Dell PERC3
RAID card back in my working days, I would have liked a straightforward
driver installation and open driver development more.



- Jeff

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 07:57, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> I'll run these buy my manager but they seem to want a single shop for
> large and small.  Most of the time we buy 2-5 at at time with the 100
> once or twice a year.  They all have to be identicle configurations
> though as we roll out a home grown kernel, drivers and everything
> package that is a lot simpler to deal with when all the hardware is the
> same across the board.
> 
> 
> Thus spake H. Bieber (habieb at myrealbox.com):
> 
> > Robert... I agree with the people that recommend using a Big company for lots of machines. There is a local vendor that is an IBM rep, they get good pricing from IBM. We are ordering 115 machines from them for a rollout, a mix of desktops and laptops (and they are putting on an image that I made and will test every system before it ships). Their prices were about $20-$50 cheaper than Dell and we (Emory Univ) are a Dell Premier site. The Reps name is Mike Csoke (pronounced Choke-a) his cell number is 678-246-3066, give him a call and tell him I sent you. Also, if you do call him let me know and I will talk to him for you also and make sure he takes care of you.
> > 
> > Harold Bieber
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:26:58 -0500 
> > Subject: [ale] Semi-OT: Atl/Ga hardware vendors?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   I've been asked to find a new vendor for our servers at work.  Currently
> > were ordering from a company in Canada.  They're ok but sometimes a pain
> > to deal with but their prices are good.
> > 
> >   I'm looking for someone who can throw together one or two boxes or 100
> > within a "reasonable" time period, can build to a standard and has a
> > decent warranty/support.  Price is of coure pretty important.
> > 
> >   Please pass on recomendations if you can, I'd ideally like to find
> > someone around the Atlanta area but inside the US is a must (we're tired
> > of servers getting hung up in customs for 2 weeks).
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > 
> > :wq!
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
> > 
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> :wq!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
>                                
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 


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