Re: Re: Dell Support and NetBSD?

Stephen Borrill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, David Wetzel wrote:

> Michael Gorsuch wrote:
>
>> Greetings all.  Is anyone here running production NetBSD systems on Dell
>> hardware?  If so, what have your experiences been with the support staff
>> when hardware fails?
>
> I worked for a company who had some Dell PCs (as Workstations). After a while the power supplys died.
> The Systems where 3 yrs old and Dell was not able to deliver a replacement in acceptable time and for a
> real price. I installed standard 1U Server power supplys then.

Dell isn't well respected in industry:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/27/gcg_server/

-- 
Stephen
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