Blog of Alexander Mamchenkov … mammoth cave …

Referring to the Don\’t buy a Dell post on the JRB Technology blog I would like note that I haven\’t worked with Dell a lot myself and can not tell much about them, I have come across choosing a hardware vendor a lot and I believe that in addition to the plain trust to one of the vendors, the location of where you will get/use hardware is also very important. For instance, not-so-long ago I was asked to get few Dell servers in Cyprus and I did all from my side (and it was successful) to convince the person not to go with Dell (even though he was ensisting quite a lot) but rather choose either IBM or HP since here, in Cyprus, I can rely only on this two vendors. But this is what happens in Cyprus (from my view). Other counties (or even different regions of counties) might have other vendors who act better and I think that telling static something straightforward like \”don\’t do this\” or \”don\’t go there\” is not fair since there are exceptions and they are all way around us. On the other hand, one can just be more specific and provide more info about a particular case (which is actually present at JRB Technology blog in this case in the previous post).