Rack equipment vendor/thoughts on Dell?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 9:04 am, Grant M. wrote:
>  I suspect that IBM
> support on Linux is likely to be better than HP's, but I am just
> guessing there. We've never used anyone for OS support.
Why do you say that? Both IBM and HP have been in the Linux business for a 
long time (with HP - tracing its roots through DEC since 1994 - I believe 
that at the 1994 BCS MegaMeeting that DEC's Jim Paradis was demoing a DEC 
Alpha with Linux running.). But both companies have been very friendly 
toward Linux. Also note that HP runs a free testdrive where you can get a 
free account and log into any number of Linux, HP-UX, VMS or Tru64Unix 
machines. (http://www.testdrive.hp.com). These are provided primarily for 
small independent software vendors to help them port their software when 
they can't get a loaner or afford to buy a system.
For the most part, Red Hat provides support for RHEL and Novell (SuSE) 
provides support for SLES. Both IBM and HP are working directly with Red 
Hat and Novell, but both also support Debian and other distros.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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