Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 31, 2007 07:05 AM
Compaq/HP/Dell.
I have worked for 2 different companies (each employed about 4000 people) that disqualified all three companies as vendors because MS software would not install on their hardware from OEM distribution media.
In essence, their hardware is "non-standard", incompatible, proprietary, lock-in,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... crap.
In both cases, these employers engaged the local build-to-order business to build to their own specs with readily available off-the-shelf parts. After the remaining Compaq/HP/Dell equipment was retired, support costs went down.
It's much easier dealing with the local build-to-order businesses too.
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Re:Now let's hope they stop shipping a half gig
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 31, 2007 07:05 AMI have worked for 2 different companies (each employed about 4000 people) that disqualified all three companies as vendors because MS software would not install on their hardware from OEM distribution media.
In essence, their hardware is "non-standard", incompatible, proprietary, lock-in,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... crap.
In both cases, these employers engaged the local build-to-order business to build to their own specs with readily available off-the-shelf parts. After the remaining Compaq/HP/Dell equipment was retired, support costs went down.
It's much easier dealing with the local build-to-order businesses too.
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