[K12OSN] School Server
Peter Scheie
peter at scheie.homedns.org
Sun Sep 28 14:32:13 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
>> Timothy Legge wrote:
>>> I would consider something other than Dell. Unfortunately, I am in
>>> Canada and most of the time Customs and Brokerage fees just make it a
>>> hassle...
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>
>> Assuming that building your own server is not an option here....
>>
>> Give both Penguin and ZaReason a call. Perhaps they've dealt with
>> this and have an easy way to handle shipments to Canada. Penguin's
>> been around for long enough that, who knows, they might have a
>> "dealership" of some sort up there.
>>
>> Failing that, then Les's suggestion of IBM is a good one.
>
> I haven't actually done the purchasing of these for a while - it used to
> be that IBM pricing was only competitive if you were a large customer
> and qualified for discounts where Dell took the opposite approach and
> often gave the best prices in the 'small/medium' business section of
> their on-line site. But things might be different now - or in Canada.
>
With Dell, it is still that way. A colleague and I were on the phone pricing
out a Dell server. The price he was seeing was about $1000 less than what I was
seeing for an identical configuration. The difference was he came through the
Small/Home Business link on the Dell website, and I came through the
Large/Enterprise link. So, if you price out a Dell, make sure you try multiple
paths to the config you want.
Peter
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