Please excuse my rather dry sense of humour. My experience of Compaq Wintel servers includes working for Compaq, and f= or 2 sites that have had in excess of 700 Compaq Wintel servers. One of t= hese was for IBM global services, and they tried (and failed) to convince= us that the IBM servers were as reliable and as manageable as the Compaq= servers. I've also worked with Dell servers, and I've not been impressed= with the ease of management or the quality of support from Dell. So I advocate an HP/Compaq only policy and put the effort into negotiatin= g prices with HP rather than playing one supplier off against another, or= (heaven forbid) a mixed server policy. And I don't beleive that you can = objectively evaluate a full set of server families in a reasonable timefr= ame - there's just too much proprietory technology involved to make it co= st effective. In short, Compaq will never be the wrong decision, but for similar reason= s, it may not be the only right one. The one thing that is definately wrong is to buy an IBM if you're a Compa= q shop. There's too much overhead in duplicating the management infrastru= cture. The right decision has always got to be to keep things simple, and= that has to be a single supplier. Regards, Jeremy Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Hooper [mailto:jennifer.hooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: dinsdag 25 mei 2004 16:59 To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: Compaq aggravation UGH!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't scare me like this! We are looking at IBM's to refresh our entire infrastructure. All I've heard are nightmare stories though (but I suppose after the messes I've been dealing with, it'll be cake!:)) Jennifer=20 -----Original Message----- From: Thomas, Jeremy [mailto:Jeremy.Thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:22 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Compaq aggravation HEATHEN - BURN IN HELL!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Malczewski [mailto:jmalczewski@xxxxxxxx] "Buy an IBM?? :D" *************************************************************************= =3D *** Disclaimer:=3D20 This electronic transmission and any files attached to it are strictly=3D= 20 confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not=3D20 t= he intended addressee, you must not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance of this transmission. If you have received this=3D20 transmissio= n in error, please notify the sender by return and delete the transmission. 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