On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Owen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We certainly appreciate the donations (and understand that Intel isn't a >> server company.) But yeah, we've gotten to know the need to look gift >> horses in the mouth with experience. > > Ha, yes indeed. > >> >> We need to work with the GNOME board and advisory board soon to get a >> couple of servers to replace the old ones, and it's going to take a bit >> of figuring out exactly how to handle that - do we want to limit >> ourselves to asking for help from the tiny fraction of the advisory >> board that actually is server companies? or ask for cash and have the >> foundation procure the hardware, or...? > > You know what might be interesting is to get much larger machines and > virtualize the services. This would reduce the cost of supporting the > hardware while keeping the same number of machines and simplify your > hardware contract if you go with a server company like HP. > >> >> (Hmm, I'm sure there's something cool we could with an X25-E or two if >> you have an inside track for a donation there.... :-) Well, actually, >> no, not so sure, I would want to see someone come up with a real >> proposal first.) > > Well, I'll ask around, but white boxes are going to be a bitch to get > someone to do a support contract for. > sri
FWIW: Dell has 3-5 year support contracts included with their newer servers. I was going to buy a R610 to replace container and forgot to ping the inside sales rep... They never got back to me after sending a quote originally. Their servers are more competitively priced than HP and they are still a tier1 vendor. -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. http://www.digitalprognosis.com _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
