Buying a server on the down low

Posted Oct 9, 2009 3:07 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) by mikov
Parent article: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

If it's from Cisco, it's part of the Network Operations budget, not part of the Application Servers budget. And Network Operations can say, "we're expanding the router to add (functionality)" instead of "we're buying a server to do (functionality)" so they don't set off the company Server Buying Process. Slick.

Buying a server on the down low

Posted Oct 9, 2009 12:51 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

It's funny because it's true.

Buying a server on the down low

Posted Oct 10, 2009 3:00 UTC (Sat) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

In both the US and UK, and probably elsewhere, when old sailing warships got past the point of economical maintenance, money for new ships was hard to get, but money to overhaul old ships was available, so they'd strip the old ship down to nothing, reuse one timber from the keel or just a small scrap, build an entirely new ship, and call it an overhaul.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.