Steve Meyers wrote:
> What server hardware vendors do you use?  What experience have you had 
> with them?

At work, we deal with a few vendors- Sun, HP and Dell mainly.

HP by-and-far is the better vendor in terms of hardware quality and most
bang for your buck. What really makes HP stand head and shoulders above
the rest is their iLO interface. There just isn't another hardware
vendor out there that competes well in that area. Their SAS drives are
top quality, and their blades are solid.

The Dell equipment is sub-par at best. The chassis for the PowerEdge
servers we have is cheap and thin. Their DRAC interface SUCKS. They
might be cheap, but you get what you pay for, and it really is cheap stuff.

Our Sun stuff is okay, but I wouldn't put much faith in their hardware
division if the Oracle deal goes through. Only time will tell. I know
Sun fanboys argue that no hardware is superior to Sparc, but I don't see
the quality in the hardware we have. Our HP stuff is better, if you ask me.

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