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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:54:26 -0500
From:      Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To:        Patrick Calkins <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>
Cc:        "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20010419215425.A11628@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>
References:  <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:50:18PM -0700, Patrick Calkins wrote:
> Have a quick (or not so quick) question:
> 
> I am installing a datacenter with web servers, mail servers, database
> servers and file servers. I don't want any MS products if I can help it ;o).
> The question is which commercial vendors are best to use if going with a
> FreeBSD OS? I tried to talk to Dell and Compaq about it, but they seem more
> than happy to help me if I am going to use all MS stuff, but mention FreeBSD
> and they are all clueless about it. They don't even seem to up on Linux
> either (although they both claim to support it, and ship their servers with
> it if you need it). I talked to BSDi about it as well, they (naturally)
> support the xBSD but it seems that they want to sell you the same hardware
> that I can go to my local computer store and buy myself. I want fast,
> reliable, good equipment. With the norm for a datacenter - RAID 5, hot-swap,
> clustering, etc. I wanted to stick with a one vender solution if I could
> help it. Does anyone know what Yahoo runs for their hardware vendors? I
> noticed on mail.yahoo.com they sport a Compaq logo, but I thought they used
> FreeBSD for their OS - does this mean that Compaq *really* does support xBSD
> if you give them enough $$$??? I expect the project to be around $250,000 so
> money really isnt a concern.
> 
You might want to take a look at Apache Digital (http://www.apache.com)
I bought an Athalon workstation from them a few months back and am well
pleased.  

-- 
Regards,
Doug

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