On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:11 -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > Ivan Oleynik wrote: > > vendors have at least list prices available on their websites. > > > > > > I saw only one vendor siliconmechanics.com <http://siliconmechanics.com> > > that has online integrator. Others require direct contact of a saleperson. >
Ivan, that is what good salespeople are FOR. You use them to gain knowledge of the latest and greatest chipsets/CPUs/doodahs. But you also use them to tap into the knowledge of their pre-sales engineers and delivery/integration manager. For instance, have you thought about a site survey? Any company worth its salt will come along and measure up height of doors, the delivery path from the loading dock - are there stairs? Are the lifts big enough to take a rack? Floor loading? Do you have enough Commando sockets? And once you have a quote from a company there's nothing to say you have to take it - unless you're following a formal tendering process of course, but I think in this case you are not. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
