From: "Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 11:25 am, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
> Carly is gone, as of a few months ago. We were singing "Ding Dong the
> witch is dead" in the aisles.
Somehow, I expect that this was, literally, done. :)
Yes, it was quite literal. Someone at this office almost got in trouble for
it, until we got reports of it happening all over hp. They couldn't punish
the entire workforce.
> That said, I don't know where to go for server hardware. For consumer,
> there's dozens of decent whitebox companies. Or put it together
> yourself- unless you're looking for a cheap email and net machine, you
> still save a lot of money over HP/Dell/IBM by self building.
The problem being manpower. Building them ourselves requires the staff to
do so (component selection, integration, testing, repairing, etc.) We'd
much rather run with a smaller staff and have a vendor do those things for
us, so we can focus on getting our primary jobs done.
Aye, probably not the best decision for a corporate world choice. Of
course, in the corporate world you really don't need a new PC unless you're
doing multimedia or development professionally, old cheap parts will do
fine, so the cost savings is low anyway. Whitebox vendors are still a good
option though. I'd argue they're even a better option- if you buy 200
machines from a company that makes 10K a year, you are a significant
customer to them (2% of their volume) and will get "drop everything and fix
it" level support. Buy 200 from Dell or HP, and they won't even notice you.
Gabe
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