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

[John Francini]

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.

j



On 1 Dec 2008, at 14:52, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> 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?
>
> Lionel
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