[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: "Evan Mann" <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:28:24 -0500
We donât buy Dell's because they are cheaper, we buy them because myself, and
my manager have had nothing but good experiences with them. Myself over the
past 6 years, and my manager in the past 8+. Sure, at my last gig, a
non-profit, we got them because they were cheaper, but we never had any issues.
We could have gone with HP, Compaq, or IBM at my current employer, but prior
experiences gave us no reason to change. I think it's ignorant to assume
people buy Dell ONLY because they are cheaper.
I see merit to going with a company with a longer history, but do people really
think Dell is just going to shrivel up and die out of the blue? Or that they
will suddenly drop their server market? I don't see that happening. So why
does it matter that another company has been around longer and focuses more on
a particular market? If someone's experience using Dell servers has been
positive from day one, then why did they need to spend more money in the first
place?
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jeremy Saunders
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 6:04 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
I agree 100% with Jim. However, putting all the comparisons aside, we need to
respect that some companies don't have budgets and management buy in like
others. So they have to achieve the same solution with a lot less funding.
Isn't that the reason why most people choose Dell's? Whilst 99.99999% of the
time we sell HP's and IBM's, there is always going to be that one project we do
every now and then that is based on Dell's. At the end of the day, you may not
get the same performance and reliability out of them, but they still work and
will do the job.
Interesting comments about the 1855 blades though. Fancy a Dell salesman saying
that.
Rusty, I deployed a couple of 1850 1U servers a few weeks back, which are being
used as Citrix Servers. The only catch was that we had to disable the DRAC
Virtual Devices during the build process, as our 2nd partition was being set to
E: and not D:. The Virtual CD ROM drive automatically took D:
which failed our build process because we build Citrix servers with the
Profiles (Documents and Settings) folder on the D: drive.
Cheers.
Kind regards,
Jeremy Saunders
Senior Technical Specialist
Integrated Technology Services &
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thin
All I can say is this. When I make a decision it is an intelligent and informed
one. One of the largest criterion for a decision I make when it comes to
hardware and software(or any product for that matter) is the companies
reputation in the industry, their experience with a given architecture, how
long have they been and around and how long do I expect will they be around in
the future.
It is a rarity that I have made a poor decision. My ISP has never gone belly
up, my cell phone company has never changed hands and neither have my utility
companies I choose.
Compaq, Dec have changed hands, as have gateway and a myriad of other hardware
vendors. IBM has always been IBM and HP has always been HP. Both companies
have been around a lot longer then Dell. IBM has been around since the early
1900's, HP has been around since the late 1930's and Dell only came onto the sc
ene about 15 years or so ago. They have a long way to go before they catch up
to IBM or HP.
JK
Roger Riggins <roger. wrote:
So you choose IBM not because they have a better product, but because of
their reputation? Just clarifying.
Roger Riggins
Network Administrator
Lutheran Services in Iowa
w: 319.859.3543
c: 319.290.5687
http://www.lsiowa.org
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:06 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
Um I wasn't comparing the hardware...I was comparing the companies
and their stature in the industry.
JK
From: roger.riggins
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:27 PM
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
I still donât get it. If there is no comparison in hardware, then
you should be able to rattle off some differences that make it so.
Roger Riggins
Network Administrator
Lutheran Services in Iowa
w: 319.859.3543
c: 319.290.5687
http://www.lsiowa.org
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[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:18 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
You are reading between the lines. I was mearly stating to
Roger that both IBM and HP hardware have a bigger stake in the
server business and are more committed to it then Dell ever
was or ever will be. I am sure that dell equipment runs just
fine and serves your purpose but there really is no
comparison. Dell still needs to grow up and decide what kind
of company it is going to be. IBM and HP are already there.
JK
Evan Mann <emann@com> wrote:
I've got a couple 7 year old Dell PE servers still running
today that have had zero problems. On e of them is a data
base server with heavy I/O and CPU use (it's now relegated to
a testing machine, too slow obviously). So my experiences
tells me that Dell ca n keep up just fine with the
competitors in terms of quality of equipment, uptimes, etc.
My support experiences have been top notch as well.
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