New - HPE Integrity Itanium RX2800 Servers for HP-UX Unix & OpenVMS

[Jesse Dougherty]

Can a company buy a New / unused (not Re-New) rx2800 i6 anymore from HP? I have a user that insists on a i6 rx2800 new / non-Re-New from HP. I can't seem to find a path for him. I might have 50 of the i4 rx2800 here with the same specs as the i6, same everything for $ 3k but they insist on new from HP.

Thanks
Jesse Dougherty
Cypress Technology, Inc. / Re-Sellers of HP 9000 & Itanium hardware
Phone**personal info erased**
www.Cypress-Tech.com

[support_s]

System recommended content:

1. HPE Insight Remote Support Release Notes and Support Matrix | HPE Integrity and HPE 9000 servers

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[Steven Schweda]

> System recommended content:

   This malformed URL was even less useful than the usual "System
recommended content".  Perhaps others did better, but I got an error
page ending with "(Error: 400)", which suggested an invalid URL.  In
fact, replacing "||" with "&" got my browser to the actual (useless)
document.  Or, just truncate the URL after "docid=xxxxx":

      https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=sd00001798en_us

But it's still about as useless as most "System recommended content"
here.

      Please click on "Thumbs Up/Kudo" icon to give a "Kudo".

   What fraction of "System recommended content" gets a positive
response?  And, more important, where's the button/link for "Dang! That
was a total waste of my time!"?  But I digress.

> [...] they insist on new from HP.

   Tell them (politely?) that they're morons?  How many years ago did
HP[E] stop making those things?  Suggest that they call HPE themselves,
and try to get one directly.  And that when that fails, they can get
what you have from you.

> [...] same everything for $ 3k [...]

   I'd be tempted to add a stupidity/obstinacy surcharge.

[Jesse Dougherty]

Agreed, link is useless... in response, users dont have a lot of choices if they need a box with HP-UX 11.31. Either they get one or figure out how to re-do their entire place with another OS.. few thousand vs 100s of thousand's..

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] Either they get one or figure out how to re-do [...]

   You don't need to persuade me.  If _I_ needed an antique, I would not
be so fussy.  Especially if there's no great cost difference for a
service contract between a unit that's true-new and one that's like-new.

   The cliche is "the customer is always right," not "the customer is
always smart."