[Info-vax] X86 first boot? - A Really Stupid Question

[Dave Froble]

On 3/29/2019 7:07 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 3/29/19 12:03 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 3/29/19 11:57 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>
>>> Or, you David could set up an operation to mfg and sell systems that
>>> meet rigid specifications, which VSI could support.
>>
>> While this sounds like a nice solution, sadly, I doubt there
>> would be enough business to make it work.
>
> It does seem a little daft to suggest that Island Computers get into the
> manufacturing business when there are already so many custom server
> vendors who will happily put together whatever you want, for a (high)
> price.
>
> A more reasonable role for the traditional VMS resellers would be to
> work with VSI to understand exactly what combinations of cpu, chipsets,
> I/O, networking, etc. have been qualified, navigate the HPE and Dell
> configuration systems to put together something that matches, and sell
> those things to people that want them, along with VMS licenses and VMS
> pre-installed.
>
> In other words, resellers will do exactly what they have always done,
> and the vast majority of customers will do what they have always done
> and place orders with those resellers.  The very largest customers,
> i.e., the only ones who have been allowed to buy VMS systems directly
> from DEC/Compaq/HP/HPE in recent memory, will either do the same
> homework the resellers have done and know what systems to order directly
> from the manufacturers, or they will switch to using resellers.
>

Yep, didn't mean that David had to do the actual manufacturing.  Just 
make available systems that will work with VMS.

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