[2620] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Plan for Athena 9.0 and GX150
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Feb 28 19:09:36 2001
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:09:30 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU, longpd@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <002001c0a18e$cabbb0e0$43029812@GUTTENBERG>
Excerpts from mail: 28-Feb-101 Re: Plan for Athena 9.0 and.. @MIT.EDU (1067)
> Let me know if anyone has suggestions for alternate platforms to look
> at. I'm not suggesting that we should rush out and make a change just
> because Dell screws up orders now and again. There is no guarantee that
> the next vendor will do any better. Rather, if there are choices people
> would like to look into, due diligence to insure we're not overlooking
> something now and again is a good thing.
Agreed.
We don't really have the resources to do a Request for Proposals, and do
a lot of acquiring and testing. Nobody really has suggested much in the
way of additional contenders. Because of the expanding role of HP in
MIT academic computing, I did a quick sanity check and reported my
opinion that they're not really ready yet.
I suggest we plan to proceed with Dell, now that the test system
situation has been pretty much resolved. Let us see what, if anything,
Gateway produces as a consequence of my initial overtures. The trigger
for more action would be a report from someone that there is a clear
leader in low price and high Linux committment that we should
investigate. At the present time no such vendor has come to my
attention.
-wdc
