[ale] Server Vendor Hardware

[Christopher Fowler]

Dell's engineering is spent on plastics and not much more.
As HP said: "Dell is just a VAR".



On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:07:46PM -0400, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, did you consider PenguinComputing.com?
> 
> Just for the fun of it, I spec'd out a box with this config (except this 
> machine has next day support) for a total of $6282.  Of course, I'm more 
> interested in computing nodes, so I left off keyboards, mice, crap like 
> that.  Fun thing is, a similar machine from Dell costs (on state 
> contract) $5967.  Interesting that Dell's state contract price is only 
> $300.00 off the Penguincomputing retail price. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> jonathan glass
> 
> Alexander Barton wrote:
> 
> >Excellent.  Good thinking about that 2U part.  That way it'll mount 
> >underneath my desktop and I won't have to worry about stubbing my toes 
> >any more.
> >
> >-A
> >
> >Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Ok, guys, I'm looking for some server quality hardware for my company.
> >>Something along these specs:
> >>
> >>Rackmount 2U
> >>Dual 3Ghz Xeon
> >>4Gigs of ram
> >>3x75Gig Hotswap SCSI drives
> >>4x10/100 Copper NIC
> >>Floppy (must have)
> >>Linux compatable
> >>
> >>On-site Service such as Dell's 4Hour is a big plus.
> >>
> >>We're currently getting quotes from Dell and IBM for a total of
> >>about 80-100 machines but I'm not sure in what quantity how fast yet.
> >>That will come down the road once we get pricing, etc.
> >>
> >>Suggestions based on working with the vendors?
> >>  Robert
> >>
> >>
> >>:wq!
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