Dell sells; Sun and HP wait for your call (and then put you on hold)
- The Sun Doesn’t Shine on Me
I can’t seem to be able to buy any Sun servers.
I’ve tried.
I’ve been trying since July of 2005.
So let me tackle this in two parts.
Part one, we’ll roll back to July of 2005 when I, a person coming from a “you buy Dell desktops and laptops when you think you are saving money from buying Macs but all the servers are Suns, Compaqs, and SGIs” world, attempted to buy about 50ish servers and terabytes of storage from Sun or HP.
Part two, we’ll talk about my recent adventures that started immediately after reading “The Death of the Cold Call”.
Jason Hoffman of Joyent details his experiences trying to buy Serious Big Iron from (a) Dell (b) Sun (c) HP. Based on this, I would never buy shares in Sun (in fact I’d dump them if I owned any) and prefer Dell far before HP. Dell’s sales process works. Simple as that. (Seen at Joyeur)
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Dell explains why it killed customer forums (sort of); and that Shuttle delay in full (14 July 2005; score: 74.56%)
- Dell shuts customer support forums.. because they're full of criticism (13 July 2005; score: 53.46%)
- At LAST! Dell gets its own rumours site (4 February 2005; score: 53.16%)
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