[dba-Tech] OT: Compaq vs. Dell

...I have a number of Poweredge 2600's and have had no problem with
integrating third party h/w ...I'm guessing this was a combo of a less than
technically savvy end-user and Dell's old Indian tech support which was
horrible on its best days, but that's just a wag of course ...as noted
previously Dell has recently moved all small business/corporate support back
to the states ...I used them when upgrading server memory recently and found
them to be more than satisfactory.

William Hindman


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Barash" <James at fcidms.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] OT: Compaq vs. Dell


> I was just reading about Dell servers and it seems that they, too, have
> begun to use proprietary parts in some of their servers. See
> http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/section/Gripes . I've used Dell servers
> for a few years and haven't had any complaints. Fortunatly, I haven't
> had occassion to call their technical support so I can't comment there.
> At my previous employer, we used Compaq servers exclusively and found
> them to be reliable but hard to get replacement parts on the few
> occassions where we had a hardware failure.
>
> James Barash