[buug] Are there any commercial Unix users in this group?

[Nick Buchanan]

Yeah a lot can be said for HP hardware, the only failure I have seen
in the year and a half I have had to deal with it was a failed system
board on a ancient yellowed D class.    

Speaking of bureaucracy, I have to cut a trouble ticket to myself for
every thing I do, even if I just need to chmod a file. Then I need to
spend 10 minutes explaining why I had to do it. I spend more swimming
through bureaucracy than I do resolving problems or implementing solutions.
  
-- 
Nick Buchanan
nbuchanan at onebox.com 


---- "Brian Sobolak" <sobolak at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > i can't speak for HP, having not really handled anything of theirs.
> 
> I had to spend a lot of time recently learning how HP peripherals interact
> with the HP-UX kernel.  The engineering behind the HP equipment was
> amazing.  I couldn't say that I've looked quite as carefully at Sun
> or IBM stuff, but the HP disc arrays, high-end machines and storage
> were really, really impressive.
> 
> Of course as someone already mentioned, the problem was that you had
> to use HP-UX.  I think HP is really making a lot of progress towards
> having customers run Linux systems, but it will also be second to HP-UX
> in the near future.  I don't think major corporations are ready to
> run their 2TB Oracle databases or PeopleSoft apps on Linux yet.
> 
> As a funny aside about HP:  when I started there, it took them two
> days to get me a computer.  Ouch!  Why should it takes two days to
> give a contractor a computer at a /major computer manufacturer/.
> 
> brian
> --
> Brian Sobolak
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> sobolak at myrealbox.com
>