Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:03:30 -0600 From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rackmount MP AMD boxes? Message-ID: <20050516100330.46e6b7b2.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20050516011517.00ab1b70@pop.redshift.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20050516001815.00ab1b70@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050515211634.00b041d8@pop.redshift.com> <m28y2hxitg.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <3.0.1.32.20050515211634.00b041d8@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050516001815.00ab1b70@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050516011517.00ab1b70@pop.redshift.com>
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On Mon, 16 May 2005 01:15:17 -0700 ray@redshift.com wrote: > | I would estimate it was about 4-5 weeks ago. Sorry but I don't recall > | any names. Tech guy was good. Sales guy I got transferred to was > | supposedly one of the head honchos. Don't recall specifics but I have > | vague recollection of Indian (?) accent and that he may have been part > | owner and/or manager. Anyhow, I have a reseller's license and he was > > Hi Ken, > > I've been to the company - I don't believe there are any Indian people working > there. It's a small shop, great equipment, well run, etc. Are you sure you > weren't talking to Dell :) > > | Glad they've worked out well for you but I'd certainly never consider > | them ever again unless I was in a real bind and out of options. I may > | have only been dropping 4 grand but for me that's not mere chump change > | and I didn't appreciate being treated like one. > > My gut reaction is you are mixing them up with some other company... but who > knows. Maybe you hit a bad sales person or something? > > All I can say is that as far as pricing, they are best I've found and I've been > in the computer field for 26 years. I used to sell boxes. When I first ran > across them, their prices on Supermicro servers (the price I was getting from > them for just 1 or 2 machines at a time) was so much lower than other hardware > suppliers that several of the other people bidding on my business flat out said > "We pay more wholesale for our equipment than OSS is selling it to you for - we > can't beat those prices". > > I went back to OSS (spoke with Eren) and asked them how they are getting such > great prices. He explained they sell to larger gov and enterprise companies > (AOL, etc, etc) and that they move so much volume that they get great prices > from SuperMicro). I believe they are now doing basically the same thing, only > with AMD and Tyan. > > Anyway, no one is forcing you to shop there :-) I was simply answering that one > e-mail from whoever was asking about AMD boxes. That's where I buy our rack > servers and as I said, the service has been 2nd to none over the last 3 or 4 > years. Having done business with the company for all our servers, I'm a little > surprised you would have such radically different experiences. Ray/List, et. al.-- I'd meant to send my last reply to Ray and not the list. That's what I get for doing email that late when I'm tired... I think Ray's reply to OP was an honest effort to be helpful based on his personal experiences with oss. Similarly with me. I wouldn't have followed up to the extent that I did had not the company I was referencing been so rude and arrogant. Sorry that I cannot recall specifics as they were one of many I spoke with and it's been a few weeks but I was pretty sure we were talking about the same outfit. However, I now concede that we may not have been referencing the same company. Doing some research this morninig, I am inclined to think I was the one in error. The company I referenced was very close in name (again sorry that I cannot recall precisely), linked to from Tyan's website (perhaps at the time, but I cannot seem to find them there anymore), was a flash heavy site, and somehow affiliated with Colfax (at least that's who I got transferred to and the website I was directed to to check pricing). Of this latter part I am sure because I revisited and immediately recognize the site. Anyhow, I don't want to spam the list anymore with this. But in fairness to Open Source Storage I feel I should post this follow up saying that I _may_ have been confusing them with someone else. My apologies if I've offended anyone in so doing. Thanks for your indulgence and have a good day;-) Ciao-- kvg
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