On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Scott Doty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@ponzo.net">scott@ponzo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
( Maybe we can get him to join this conversation on this mailing<br>
list? It would be interesting to see if they even offer Linux for their<br>
servers...if not, maybe IBM is a better vendor? :) )<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know about the "mainframe"/"mini" servers that HP sells (the new HP-9000 type stuff, etc), but their intel and AMD servers definitely support Linux and can be purchased with Linux pre-installed. They'll sell you a server with Windows, SuSE, RHEL, VMware, or Citrix XenServer pre-installed (all certified and everything). They've offered that for at least 5 years now, certainly more. At SSU we have quite a few HP servers running RHEL; primarily because Dell was late to support AMD and HP has a much better lights-out system than Dell. (and there's state contracts with HP and Dell that make them easier for us to buy). I don't what kind of support they offer, but they do sell laptops with SuSE and desktops/workstations with RHEL, too. Back before Dell had any Linux offerings outside of high-priced "workstations", HP was selling a couple of their laptops with a Debian image installed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And BTW: SSU is part of the state of california. California employs hundreds of thousands of people with thousands of different IT departments...</div></div>-- <br>Eric Eisenhart <*@<a href="http://eric.eisenhart.name">eric.eisenhart.name</a>><br>
<a href="http://eric.eisenhart.name/">http://eric.eisenhart.name/</a><br><br>