On May 25, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
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.
Um, hello? How about Sun? You know, that funny Mountain View, CA company?
I priced out Opteron machines. I could save maybe $200 per machine by building it myself rather than buying an off-the-shelf package from Sun or HP. That $200 gets me very nice support from Sun. Sun support has rocked every time I needed them. Call up, describe problem, get problem logged, have support engineer show up *in person with spare part in hand* within 24 hours.
Really. Take a look at the Sun machines. I have been very happy with my Sun Java Workstation W1100z running Solaris 10 on an Opteron.
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