Dell

[Dave Hull]

Quoting Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>:

> Compaq servers can also be purchased with Linux on them right?

Have worked on half a dozen Compaq servers over the years, I rate them Gateway
Servers and that is not very highly. During the era when I was working with
Compaq hardware, everything was proprietary. If a drive failed or a stick of
RAM failed, they had to be replaced with Compaq parts. And those parts failed
on a regular basis.

I worked in an HP shop for a little over a year and their equipment was
outstanding. Service was awesome. I was extremely disappointed when Compaq and
HP merged, fearing that HP would be brought down to Compaq's level.

I've been working on Dell hardware at work, exclusively for the last six years
and have been extremely pleased with it. I was running Linux on hardware from
Dell before they supported it with very little problems.

In our racks we have almost a dozen Dell servers running RHELAS with no issues
whatsoever. In our development environment, we have seven Dell boxes running
some version or another of Red Hat or Suse. Some of these boxes are approved by
Dell to run Linux, others aren't and all of them work without any problems at
all.

As for service from Dell, I've never had any bad experiences (knock on wood), so
far. I've had two disks fail in the last couple of years and they have been
replaced in short order.

If you're looking to run Linux on server hardware, Dell is rock solid.

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Dave Hull
http://insipid.com