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

[hike]

anysystems.com
aka, sunsolve.com


On Mon, 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.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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