[geeks] Re: HP's squandering

[Chris Byrne]

While I was working at Dell they had an unofficial policy of simply
replacing any itanium box that had a problem rather than attempting to
fix it.

The exact quote to me was "Look, they don't work. They arent fixable. We
just give them a new box. We never should have relesed them".

The Box in question was designed by HP, and Intel offered for low cost
as a reference design for large vendors so they could push the itanium
out there months before it was really ready for production systems. 

I then asked how many of the systems we had sold world wide "Less than a
thousand or so I think. We've already replaced most of them"

Fun stuff eh.

Chris Byrne 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bradford
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 13:57
> To: The Geeks List
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: HP's squandering
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:53:58PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   There are always some on eBay.  With $6K-10K opening bids, ending 
> > with no bids.  All the time.
> >   Like I said...nobody is buying these things.  A few 
> research clusters 
> > at supercomputer centers does not a market share make.
> 
> Dell gave a prototype Itanium box to $WORK.  Dell dropped the 
> planned product
> line.  Work tried to give it back.  DELL DIDNT WANT IT BACK.
> 
> As far as i know, its sitting down the hall..
> 
> Bill
> 
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> bill bradford
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> austin, texas
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