[wellylug] Computer System Vendor Wgtn
Ian Beardslee
itb at falcons.co.nz
Sat Apr 21 09:12:29 NZST 2007
Ok to throw my thoughts in (trying to get the wording right to not
create a 'vendor war')
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 03:21 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> --- Wayne Koorts <wayne at wkoorts.com> wrote:
>
> > Plus Dell is pro-Linux so they deserve our support as a Linux community.
>
Dell is not someone I recommend, sure their servers work well. But I
don't like being told to take a disk out of a running server and put it
into another server to see if that server really has a faulty disk or if
there is a fault with the backplane. Yes we had a support contract, but
they seem reluctant to replace the disk.
> Hmmm... I suggest Dell is reluctantly supporting Linux due to customer demand.
> HP & IBM are far more proactive in selling Linux based systems, and contribute
> a damn sight more to Linux & OS development behind the scenes.
>
> If you want warm fuzzies from supporting pro Linux companies, there are better
> places to go than Dell.
Silicon Systems in Petone is a good one ... they have supported our
Linux InstallFest for the last few years. Although to be honest I
haven't actually used their 'whitebox' systems for linux myself.
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