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Sanity check my Dell test system purchase timeline.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Mar 15 16:27:02 2001
Message-ID: <sugHCR5z0001JYyHF4@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:26:53 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: longpd@MIT.EDU
CC: owls@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
As you all probably know, the order for the 6 Sun test systems went out
last week. The ad copy says expect it in 8 days. We'll see.
I discussed the order of events for ordering Dell test systems with
Andrew Boardman and have formulated the following DIFFERENCE from what
we previously planned:
Originally, we were going to wait a day or so to validate the hardware
that just came in, and then expedite order 5 more test systems.
Andrew is in the thick of things of getting a Crash&Burn Athena 9.0 for
Linux put together. He believes that the C&B Linux 9.0 will be ready
soon to test on Dell hardware.
Since we're pretty busy this week with performance reviews, and other
stuff, and then will get busy when the Sun equipment comes in, I'm
planning to hold off ordering the Dell equipment until AFTER Andrew has
validated the one test system we have in had with C&B Athena 9.0.
Ok?
If 2 weeks go by without this happening, then we should close our eyes
and order 5 more Dell systems.
-wdc
