[NTLUG:Discuss] Rack-mount server vendors?

[Chris Cox]

Scott Womer wrote:

>I've had extremely good experiences with Compaq, not the cheapest, but not
>as expensive as you might think either.  I buy mine from CoMark here in
>Dallas, getting fully loaded DL360 (1U) rackmounts for 3-5k each.  I then
>add to that Compaq's 7/24 support for a couple k per year and I have a
>worry-free operation.  Laura Thomas is my contact there... tell her I sent
>ya.
>
I just built my first Compaq DL380 2U unit.  This is a very nice platform.
Dual 1.13Ghz PIII with hardware RAID (5) and 10K rpm 36G SCSI x 3.  Disk
operations on this box are so fast that most software has a difficult 
time keeping up...
pretty cool.  Still wish you could redirect the BIOS messages out the 
serial port like
you can do with the Dell units... but otherwise, a pretty nice platform 
(and VERY
VERY LOUD!!).