[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: "Nick Smith" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:25:17 -0000
I spoke to a Dell server specialist in the UK with regards to buying
blades, and he basically said to me (More tactfully than this and over
half an hour)
a) Don't buy our blades, buy our 1850s instead.
b) If you *must* buy blades, for space reasons, don't buy ours, buy
someone else's - IE HP or IBM.
This was in a conversation being listened in to by other Dell sales
reps, so was probably not a maverick opinion. In the UK, Dell don't even
price their blades on the web-site, which indicates to me they're not
particularly keen on selling them - usually a bad sign.
Nick
PS We're a Dell house too and for anything else I've seen no compelling
reason to ever swich to IBM or HP in other circumstances.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rusty Yates [mailto:rusty27@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 January 2006 17:32
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
Is this an opinion or from experience? And can you give
examples? We are currently a Dell show and are looking to buy around
200k worth of servers. We can save around 40k to 50k by going with
Dell. So is it really worth that much to go with IBM? What does IBM
bring to the table for that much?
FYI: Reason I'm not mentioning HP is because if I was going to
switch from Dell I would go IBM. Mainly due to their long history and I
like the fill and management of their Blades.
On 1/21/06, Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can tell you that in general everything about Dell
servers pales in comparison to HP and IBM. Stability, manageability,
support, etc are very, very bad compared to the HP and IBM. If there
was any way I could convince you to stay away from Dell I surely would.
Jeff Pitsch
On 1/21/06, Rusty Yates <rusty27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would like to know if anyone on this board has
had any good or bad experience with the Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade
Servers. We are currently taking a hard look at using the Dell Blades
for our Citrix Servers.
Thanks in advance!
Rusty
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