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What I got out of this article is Dell is cheaper but not as stacked.
Dell just bitchslapped Cisco over its Unified Computing System, insisting that the networking giant's foray into the server biz suits Cisco's bottom line more than the needs of its customers. Cisco's UCS is designed to unify networking, computing, storage, and virtualization tools in a single product. Cisco paints it as a …
Whereas Cisco's offerings are "closed," Asthana says, Dell's are "open."
Dell's systems are just as "open" as Cisco's, or HP's, or IBM's, etc. Try to find a third-part drive carriage for a Dell server; impossible. Try to order a Dell drive carriage without also ordering a hard drive; Satan will build a ski resort in hell before that happens.