Tom Elken wrote:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Pierce
... It is a cost effective solution, and Dell clusters keep
popping up at US Universities as well.
Tom
The same is true at UK Universities.
-Tom
Don't know about the UK universities, but more than a couple US ones
have signed single source agreements with Dell (or HP or [insert the
large tier 1 vendor of your choice]).
Makes selling things to these folks often a little more of a challenge
... not for pricing reasons, but purely for paperwork reasons.
I find it amusing on good days when we are asked to write a sole-source
memo for our customers. I won't comment on whether or not this is the
right thing to do, or even a good thing to do for the universities.
Joe
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