[rescue] back to needing an U1 cpu fan :-( need source

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:04:25PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > But at that point, U1s, the U5s 10s are virtually worthless, so they just
> > upgrade (the paying support customers) to whatever is available and
> > current. Youre U1 dies?.. here's a U10.. its been depreciated to $0 anyway.
> > hell, in a couple of years, the Blade 100s will be $0..
> 
> Except that it's not a direct swap.  Instead of a part showing up and
> me being back up within hours I now have to deal with the fact that my
> bootblocks don't work.  Oh, and those sbus cards you had in that Ultra 1?
> They don't work.  Oh, right... you had SCSI disks? (of course you did,
> no IDE disks on U1).  Right, those won't work without a SCSI card.
> 
> THAT is why they would curb this kind of free replacement ahead of time.
> The people who buy these service contracts don't care if they have
> the latest/greatest/shiniest.  They want back up.  Many measure their
> downtime in $/sec sometimes thousands of $/sec.  A U10 to replace a U1
> is not much consolation (especially considering many consider a U1
> superior to U10).

Besides, if hypothetically, if Sun was replacing my hypothetical U1 at
a former job with a U5, who would pay the bill for recertification as
required by the FDA?

And I say hypothetical because it was an all IBM and Compaq place,
with no sign of Sun.  And if a machine on support contract failed,
they would not at all be happy with a different machine being swapped
in because it would take months and hundreds of thousands of dollars
to verify the new machine.
 
However, swapping in an identical part was pain free.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd