By the way, if you have to work through a purchasing departement that only looks at the cheapest price, but you want to go with a specific vendor because of the superior solution and technical expertise, then you can engage the sales engineer / sales person in defining a uniqueness about the solution that cannot be met by the other vendors, it's called writing a 'sole source justification' letter. That way you can make sure to get the best value in terms of performance / technical ability and support. even if your institutions purchasing departments metrics are not taking that into consideration.
Michaeld -----Original Message----- From: Rahul Nabar [mailto:rpna...@gmail.com] Sent: Fri 9/25/2009 11:34 AM To: Michael Will Cc: Jeff Layton; Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] posting bonnie++ stats from our cluster: any comments about my I/O performance stats? On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Michael Will <mw...@penguincomputing.com> wrote: > Some will have quite technically skilled sales engineering resources, and > Jeff Layton for sure is somebody with deep > technical experience. Absolutely. Jeff has been a great help so far. Even before he responded to my questions here I've been an active follower of his articles on the Linux Magazine. Great stuff! > > Then consolidate the designs and base your choice of vendor not just on the > cheapest price of components but on how qualified > the design was, because a lot of value is in getting the right solution and > ongoing support, not just the right parts. Let all vendors > know why you choose design / vendor X so they can adjust their offerings in > the future to fit your needs. > Great advice Michael! It is very much appreciated. I've been getting such good advice on this list that I wouldn't know what to do without it. Advice from guys like yourself, Jeff Layton and Joe Landman have helped me a lot and I am myself amazed at how much more (I think) I know now than just a few months ago! Thanks again! -- Rahul
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