I am looking at purchasing a new server to replace our current one. We currently have a "no brand name server." I was looking at some of the serverz that Dell has and they look decent: Dual 1.5 GHZ processors and Dual 18 GIG HD with a 1.5 GIG of RAM. Can anyone recomend a model with relatively the same specs or better??? What would be the industry stndr? Can you buy a server with SCO pre-loaded? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Here is a suggestion
Dig a bit and go to the Intel web pages
Really dig and you can find the Intel OEM product line
You will find that Intel makes a line of OEM server as good or better than the Dell, without the fancy (read expensive) dell sheet metal that ae used for a heck of a lot very reliable sites.
Intel OEM / Industrial servers are as good or better than Dell
More imporatntaly you can build your own configuration and they are the only server platfiorm I've found that is certified for everything.
As a former memeber of Intel's Valued Added Reseller council, I can safely attest that firms like Dell take Intels product and parts, like chipsets for servers and wrap all kinds of marketing hoiopla around it and mark it up like mad.
Then find a good VAR and tell them exaclty what you want.
You will 9 times out of 10 beat Dell and usually find a guy who is the local guy Dell calls to clean up Dell problems.
Wintired.
Dig a bit and go to the Intel web pages
Really dig and you can find the Intel OEM product line
You will find that Intel makes a line of OEM server as good or better than the Dell, without the fancy (read expensive) dell sheet metal that ae used for a heck of a lot very reliable sites.
Intel OEM / Industrial servers are as good or better than Dell
More imporatntaly you can build your own configuration and they are the only server platfiorm I've found that is certified for everything.
As a former memeber of Intel's Valued Added Reseller council, I can safely attest that firms like Dell take Intels product and parts, like chipsets for servers and wrap all kinds of marketing hoiopla around it and mark it up like mad.
Then find a good VAR and tell them exaclty what you want.
You will 9 times out of 10 beat Dell and usually find a guy who is the local guy Dell calls to clean up Dell problems.
Wintired.
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Driftwood30
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Here is another suggestion.
Compaq is good. All the drivers that are required to load SCO Unix are available from Compaq web site. EFS will take care of most of COMPAQ NIC card and CHA driver will take of all the SCSI controller. The servers come with 3 year world wide warranty and the support will assist you with any installation issues.
HP is another good one. You donot need any additional drivers to install OS. The OS takes care of config, similar to installing Windows OS. Verify that the hardware are certified.
IBM is also similar to HP, again hardware need to be certified for SCO.
Compaq is good. All the drivers that are required to load SCO Unix are available from Compaq web site. EFS will take care of most of COMPAQ NIC card and CHA driver will take of all the SCSI controller. The servers come with 3 year world wide warranty and the support will assist you with any installation issues.
HP is another good one. You donot need any additional drivers to install OS. The OS takes care of config, similar to installing Windows OS. Verify that the hardware are certified.
IBM is also similar to HP, again hardware need to be certified for SCO.
A "VAR" is what is known in the systems integration world as "Value Added Reseller"
Sometimes they masquerade as a vendor partner, a good example (because of a 20 plus year program to create them accross the US) is a firm that is an "IBM Solutions Partner" meaning a local firm that has a relationship to sell IBM hardware and to add value by doing a task such as network integration, or providing a specific "vertical market" software product.
A vertical Market software product is where somebody has a business built around a specific software product they write and support for things as mundane as grain elevators or wholesale lumber yards or as exciting as Boeing 737 maintenance managment.
Sometimes VARs are local computer stores that have grown up and dropped the storefront they started in and operate out of an office in a local business park.
A good place to start is to talk to your employer's finance and accounting department's outside CPA (accounting firm.)
That CPA firm usually has a good idea of VARs to check out as they probably have the experience of working with them for other clients.
Why is that? Once upon a time long long ago and far far away IT systems fell under the accourning domain as they generally were for helping the accounting departments of your typcial firm.
Wintired
Sometimes they masquerade as a vendor partner, a good example (because of a 20 plus year program to create them accross the US) is a firm that is an "IBM Solutions Partner" meaning a local firm that has a relationship to sell IBM hardware and to add value by doing a task such as network integration, or providing a specific "vertical market" software product.
A vertical Market software product is where somebody has a business built around a specific software product they write and support for things as mundane as grain elevators or wholesale lumber yards or as exciting as Boeing 737 maintenance managment.
Sometimes VARs are local computer stores that have grown up and dropped the storefront they started in and operate out of an office in a local business park.
A good place to start is to talk to your employer's finance and accounting department's outside CPA (accounting firm.)
That CPA firm usually has a good idea of VARs to check out as they probably have the experience of working with them for other clients.
Why is that? Once upon a time long long ago and far far away IT systems fell under the accourning domain as they generally were for helping the accounting departments of your typcial firm.
Wintired
I'd like to throw in that I'm mid way through building 10 SCO 505 servers using Compaq ML370 chassis in raid 1 config.
Bang for bucks they are well worth the effort, Compaq 3 year warranty is VERY worth having.
The setup on the ML370 (read Proliant) is geared towards walking you step by step into the SCO Install.
The smartstart interface is GUI which makes setting the raid array up a walk in the park.
if you are UK based talk, to Vohkus of Southampton. They sold me mine for far less than any other UK reseller including computacentre or insight. ***************************************
Party on, dudes!
Bang for bucks they are well worth the effort, Compaq 3 year warranty is VERY worth having.
The setup on the ML370 (read Proliant) is geared towards walking you step by step into the SCO Install.
The smartstart interface is GUI which makes setting the raid array up a walk in the park.
if you are UK based talk, to Vohkus of Southampton. They sold me mine for far less than any other UK reseller including computacentre or insight. ***************************************
Party on, dudes!
eyedoc1975
Technical User
Hi Mezamine,
This may not help you but it is a suggestion. Try ACER servers They make
two that are SCO certified. Model 500 and 610. Acer bought out a company
called Altos which were specializing in building SCO specific servers and
present ACER servers are very reliable and they use IBM drives. ACER web
site should give you the names of resellers in your area.
Compaq ML 370 is a good server but it's dual cooling fans are very
noisy.
Cheers
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