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

[John Francini]

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