[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:22:48 -0700
I met with a client this week (in the US) who had the same story as below,
that the DELL rep was telling him that their blades are inferior.
I would be very concerned if the vendors own reps are discouraging the
customer from using them!!
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
www.thinclient.net
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Nick Smith
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:25 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
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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