-----Original Message----- From: Dave Hull
Quoting Brian Densmore:
Compaq servers can also be purchased with Linux on them right?
... During the era when I was working with Compaq hardware, everything was proprietary. If a drive failed or a stick of RAM failed, they had to be replaced with Compaq parts. And those parts failed on a regular basis.
... when Compaq and HP merged...
Maybe part of the reason Compaq merged with HP was, failure rates and proprietary parts. We just got in a Compaq server for a client last week and it looked like a pretty decent server.
I've been working on Dell hardware at work, exclusively for the last six years
So then you have no recent experience with Compaq servers then. Six years is an eternity in this market.
and have been extremely pleased with it. I was running Linux on hardware from Dell before they supported it with very little problems.
No one ever said Dell didn't work with Linux, but just that they are not really supportive of Linux. In fact I hear lots of complaints about their Customer support.
But what it boils down to is there are plenty of stories going both ways. Dell has always had a pretty decent reputation for rock-solid hardware. Compaqs have always had a rep for proprietary. HP has always been known as rock-solid and expensive. IBM is well IBM. Then there is everyone else.
I don't have much experience personally with any brands as I tend to build whatever I need, because the hardware is always rock solid, the price is competitive and the service is outstanding. So I get the best of all worlds. If something fails I always know who to blame, and where to go to get it fixed.
[Let the hardware religion war continue]
Brian D