[THIN] Re: Compaq aggravation
- From: "Thomas, Jeremy" <Jeremy.Thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:53:52 +0200
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"
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