Hardware vendors (was: Just when you think you've seen it all...)

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/27/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>   So who do you recommend for servers?  Compaq I've had too many bad
> experiences with gratuitous incompatibility to go near.  I believe HP
> killed their own server line when they bought Compaq.  Gateway's stuff
> is limited to the "entry level", even more generic than Dell, and
> their service is crap (I have to deal with two Gateway "servers", much
> to my regret).  IBM I have no real experience with, but my cursory
> investigation found their stuff *way* more expensive then Dell -- more
> than any irritations I've had with Dell.


...

  If you want single-source reliability, buy a Sun.  Or an Apple, I
> suppose -- and they look so purty.  :)



Sun's Opteron servers look pretty good nowadays.  There's an emphasis on low
power.  If they're built as well as the Sparc based systems they're worth a
look.

* ob disclaimer - I haven''t uses Sun's non-sparc systems.  I don't know how
well linux runs on them either.  I have been using Solaris 10 on Sparc and
x86 side by side.  They seem to act the same except for minor differences
(grub, X setup (sparcs just work))
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