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RE: Funding 2nd request and report.

Original poster: "Coyle, Thomas M." <tcoyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

My $0.02: I do IT professionally, and have purchased over 200 HP Proliants designing the infrastructure for this job in the past three years. All have been in service 24x7 and are still running. I personally own five Proliants going back to the Compaq days, up to 8 years old, and all are still running. HPs are bulletproof and the remote management (ILO out of band) is amazing. Dell can't build a server to save their lives.

If you spring for a new HP DL380 or 385 server, I'll donate a pair of new 146GB drives for a mirror - $700 value. In fact, I get about 40% off list for the servers - feel free to contact me directly if you're interested.

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Sent:	Thu Oct 06 21:49:35 2005
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Subject:	RE: Funding 2nd request and report.

Original poster: "alfred erpel" <alfred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Hello Chip,

	
	I need to chime in here.  I have an IT consultant for my business
who lives (or dies?) by what he recommends to his clients and we just
purchased a new server after 7 years of using a Dell Power Edge 2400 which
he recommended back then (its performance history garners it my subjective
7.4 on a scale of 10).  Apparently he now thinks Hewlett Packard makes a
better server, since that is what we bought 2 months ago on his
recommendation.  He waxed rhapsodic on its virtues.  I'll let you know what
I think 7 years from now. :)

      My recommendation is to get what you think is best, but include a hot
swappable raid array with way more storage than you think is necessary.  Get
a microprocessor/bus/motherboard that has been in use for at least a year
and does not attempt to push the envelope in performance.  And wait for the
'list' to cough up what is necessary to get the right computer.  My check is
in the mail.  Honest.

Regards,

Al Erpel

PS -- to others reading this who it applys to, click the print icon at the
top of your window, and walk with the print out and a blank envelope to your
check book right now  ...  :)

PayPal:
chip@xxxxxxxxxx

Check/Money order:
William W. Atkinson
705 Sedge Way
Lafayette, CO
80026
(303)828-3649

Thanks in advance!

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 >Chip

 >Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

 >Hi Terry.

 >Thanks for reminding me about Sun. ....  [everything else snipped]