<OT> Anyone used Rackable boxes?

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Net Llama!:
> On 07/26/03 14:03, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >Quoth Net Llama!:
> >
> >>Anyone have any experience with Rackable's product line 
> >>(http://rackable.com)?  I'm interested in hearing about experiences, good 
> >>or bad.
> >
> >
> >We had a hard time getting actual pricing information from them.
> >They kept trying to sell us things we didn't want or didn't need
> >instead of just giving us a quote on what we asked for. It could've
> >just been the sales guy we talked to, however -- you know the type,
> >the species of salesdroid who only lives to get that One Big Sale 
> >That Makes My Career (tm)...
> 
> Yea, i'm looking at their site, and i can't find any pricing information 
> anywhere.  Everything leads to an anonymouse sales address.  I take it that 
> you didn't purchase anything?

Nope. We eventually got the pricing info, of course, and a quote,
but the IT guys were so annoyed by the evasiveness and manipulative
bullshit that they payed a small premium and bought the equipment, 
which was just a couple of 1U servers, from someone else (Penguin
Computing, IIRC).

Kurt
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