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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Wilson wrote: > > As a matter of course we presently > recommend IBM for all our sites. Bearing in mind that IBM servers come > with 3 years on site maintenance from IBM and start at less than £1000 > they are as price competitive as any. I accept that personal users may > not see the benefit of this but if you are using it for your business > then it works out well IBM kind of got a reputation for expensive that they never shifted despite dropping their prices to very competitive levels, and indeed they were losing money on each sale at one point. Although once on an IBM project we got shipped a load of IBM PC's with PCI bus technology so new and shiny they had forgotten to write the driver for the operating system they shipped with them :-( Hmm and we thought Windows 95 crashed often enough without that kind of problem. They were good quality PC's in all other regards, and worked fine a few months later when we got a driver. IBM hardware support was always superb when I've had to use it. What is the Linux support like from them? They use to do AIX support primarily through resellers and it was thus very hit or miss, especially where I was troubleshooting boxes and you had an extra layer of out of their depth support person between you and whoever screwed up the coding. Problem with troubleshooting was you rarely got to choose the reseller. Still I remember calling Compaq support many moons ago to be "THE" SCO Unix guy was away that day, so I wasn't getting any support till tomorrow, although I eventually found the answer that one myself - it was a Compaq feature ;-( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+GvUkGFXfHI9FVgYRAnEwAKCS7/n3vTwvS1wB5Zx6kT93yTtTKACfUpKz QKEp5nVW5wMy/JPoO7pF85Y= =NkcH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.