On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Joe Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > Heh ... I deleted that section of one of my responses. There isn't a lot of > data to support the notion that they will go out into the world and buy the > same stuff. They will often go for the best deals. >
People will only have a limited number of vendors on their list when they get quotes and compare specs. etc. And the sort of prestige branding does make you more likely to get on the list of vendors people will consider for a particular project. e.g I imagine there are at least 20 different HPC vendors (if not more) that would sell the kind of equipment that went into our latest cluster upgrade. How many did I actually talk to? Maybe 7. (Maybe others are more diligent than I am) And this is the sort of subjective decision that will get made on the basis of reputation and familiarity. Word-of-mouth counts a lot too. If there is a Vendor-X that nobody on Campus has ever worked with there is a far more uphill battle to convince the decision makers to give them a chance. The reasons have to be pretty compelling. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
