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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: Compaq ProLiant systems -- problems? 
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In message <199708060025.UAA20586@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write
s:
>My group is about to spend a substantial amount of money on some new
>servers, and the Compaq ProLiant 2500 (#?) has been recommended to
>us.  These machines will, of course, run FreeBSD 2.2.  Does anyone out
>there have experience with these machines, and if so did you encounter
>any problems that would keep us from being able to use them in
>``mission-critical'' applications (e.g., the Lab-wide mail, news, DNS,
>print, and Kerberos servers)?
>
>-GAWollman

In general I would avoid the Compaq machines, for several reasons:

1.  Everything in them is very proprietry, the frames you mount your
    disks in, the SCSI controllers, you name it.

2.  They are overpriced.

3.  Due to #1, you're stuck with compaq support/service, and over
    here that amounts to "It had a RAM error, so we changed the
    motherboard & the SCSI controller.  That will be $3000 thankyou!"

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