Rack equipment vendor/thoughts on Dell?

[gmongardi at napc.com (Grant M.)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 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. 

As I stated, I am just guessing, but from what I read, HP relies on
RedHat for most all of the RedHat support, where IBM does most of it's
own first-call support for Linux. I cannot speak to this first hand, but
that is what I have read. If anyone knows that this is an incorrect
assumption, please let us all know.
Thanks,
Grant M.
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Grant Mongardi
Systems Engineer
NAPC

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