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

[Lionel Peterson]

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