<quote who="Bill Moseley"> > in at over $400 more than I paid a few weeks ago. I bought mine at > Pogolinux.com. I wanted to support a linux builder. Came with > RedHat 7.2 but I replaced it with Debian.
everytime i see pogo linux i have to bring this up. i ordered 3 1U servers from pogolinux last year, and it was a absolute nightmare. its probably an isolated incident. but they shipped the systems late, gave some systems mismatched memory, none of the systems had ECC memory as ordered, one system had half the memory ordered, one system was missing a floppy drive cable, none of the rack kits had any screws, and on top of that when we returned them using their UPS shipper ID, 2 out of 3(all 3 shipped from different parts of the country) were returned to us. Seems at the time we were returning them, Pogo decided to move to a new office, and did not tell UPS in time, I would of expected UPS to know about the new address and forward the package since it was on their account, but it was returned. there was more problems, but thats a taste of what I experienced. i ordered from another company, slightly more expensive, larger box(4U vs 1U), but much better quality stuff, and they shipped the system in perfect condition, nothing missing, all parts the right kind, everything tested. one of the head engineers over there(pogo) probably remembers me, i was pissed. maybe it was an isolated incident ...only the folks at pogo know that i suspect. (note: i too like to support linux vendors. i do not buy from any of the "big name" OEMs. With the exception of laptops, which most are IBM. Otherwise all my purchases of new systems are from small shops, that usually support linux in some form or another. Of course this is for x86 hardware only, i also buy Sun stuff sometimes. ..) nate (trying very hard not to curse pogo's name)
