Shane, FY's are always the year the real year ends in, and always end at the end of a real-year quarter. Dell books a lot of end-of-real-year sales that they don't like to close their fiscal year during, so they close 3/31. Next 3/31 is obviously in 2011, so we're in FY2011. This is also why March is often a good time to get deals out of Dell.
Ryan > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-poweredge- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane Williams > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:19 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: non-Dell hard drives attached to PERC H700 and H800 > > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Stephan van Hienen wrote: > > > I saw the following post on the dell forum : > > > > http://en.community.dell.com/support- > forums/servers/f/906/t/19324790.aspx > > > >> Dell will no longer prevent customer use of non-Dell hard drives > >attached to PERC H700 and H800 controllers on our 11th generation of > >PowerEdge servers. A Q2FY11 PERC Firmware Update is planned to allow > >non-Dell hard drives to be used with these controllers. > > I found the Q2FY11 estimate to be rather strange, thinking that it was > odd to announce a firmware update a year in advance. But apparently > Dell starts their fiscal year in February, so we're currently in > Q1FY11, meaning the update should be due in the next 2-3 months. > > Of course, now I have to question a company whose fiscal year is off > of real years by 11 months... (maybe this is more commonplace than I > realize?) > > > -- > Shane Williams > Coordinator of Information Technology & System Administrator > School of Information, University of Texas at Austin > [email protected] - 512-471-9471 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
