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www.unixsucks.com:
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In these cost-conscious times, businesses are eager to hear Dell's value proposition. The company's first-generation "blade" servers hold the promise of reducing infrastructure costs, says Charles Oliver, director of global IT for Eastman Chemical Co., the $5 billion-a-year maker of chemicals, fibers, and plastics. Eastman standardized on Dell notebooks and desktops five years ago and recently decided to move software that controls manufacturing operations at about 40 plants to Windows-based Dell servers to save money. "We're very happy that Dell has a blade server strategy," he says.
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Source http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020825S0010
At least this manager is not idolizing Bill Gates like the guy from Telsra was Scott McNealy.
[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: http://www.unixsucks.com ]
voidmain:
I'm very happy Dell has blade servers too. Except I run Linux on mine. Every server that I bought from Dell in the last two years came with RedHat.
KernelPanic:
quote: Dell will introduce its PowerEdge 1655MC blade product in October. Customers can order up to six of these "server on a board" systems packaged in a slim chassis. Each board features up to two 1.26-GHz Intel Pentium III processors running Linux, Windows, or Novell NetWare.
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www.unixsucks.com:
You misunderstood what I quoted. That Eastman (5 bln dollar company) has choosen Windows to run it's operation processes.
[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: http://www.unixsucks.com ]
KernelPanic:
Thats great, we could spend weeks naming different big companies that use windows/linux/mac/unix it is pretty pointless. Especially since we already know that MS has a bigger market share in many areas.
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