[geeks] Best place to buy new (or nearly-new) Sun kit...

[Lionel Peterson]

On Dec 1, 2008, at 3:00 PM, John Francini <francini at mac.com> wrote:

> Yup.  W2K, Wxp, W2003, W2008, Vista (and most of those in both 32  
> and 64-bit flavors), clusters, etc.  VMware Server, ESX, etc. too.
>
> Sorry -- I try not to think of Windows that much, otherwise my head  
> would hurt.

I suspected as much... Out of curiousity, do you keep all your test  
machines in a dedicated space? I once worked at UniPress Software, and  
being a very cost-sensitive organization, their office workers each  
had one of the various platforms we supported as a desktop (sun, sgi,  
hp, dec, even Sony and dg)... My friend was the admin, and he loved  
it, because he got to work on many flavors of unix. No two users had  
the same desktop!

Lionel

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> On 1 Dec 2008, at 14:52, Lionel Peterson wrote:
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>> On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:07 PM, John Francini <francini at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In my capacity as an obtainer of things tech for $WORK, I've been  
>>> asked to buy a couple of Sun Netra servers (SPARC, not Intel) with  
>>> PCIe buses.
>>>
>>> Having zero experience with buying Sun kit, I'm wondering whether  
>>> it's better to buy such directly from Sun, or to go through a  
>>> reseller.  If the latter, is there a decent one in New England  
>>> that you can recommend?
>>>
>>> Disclosure: $WORK="Dell EqualLogic" -- maker of iSCSI stroage  
>>> arrays. These servers will be used for testing EqualLogic arrays  
>>> via QLogic controllers.  Not a typical 'production' scenario, but  
>>> a certification/support verification situation. (EqualLogic  
>>> supports most every OS that has iSCSI capabilities, including  
>>> Solaris, Mac OS X, HP/UX, AIX, etc.)
>>
>> Windows Server? VMware ESX/Infrastructure?