Hi folks,
I've been down that line as well....but since a couple of years I manage to convince
the staff and IT gurus to accept that an test environment is NOT comparable to an
office.
Therefore I prefer an industrial computer
http://www.capax.se/products/RackPC/RackPC.aspx with a passive back plane (lots of PCI
(7)) and ISA (7) slots)[IPC-2402 - 4U Allround industrial rack PC] and a efficient
cooling shielding in a 19'' form factor.
On that machine we then role out our standard OS built on WIN 2000 with virus
protection, LAN and more. Currently we also ran LabVIEW 7.0.
Yours Sincerely,
Lennart Berlin
Advisory Engineer, Design & Production Support
Ericsson Microwave Systems AB
Sensors and Information Networks
SE-431 84 M�lndal
Sweden
Phone: +46 31 747 1696
Fax: +46 31 747 2830
Mobile: +46 70 987 1696
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ericsson.com/microwave/
Visitors address: Solhusgatan
412 76 Goteborg
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Sent: den 13 maj 2004 14:41
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Subject: Corporate PC purchases for factory test, your experiences
please
All,
This may really be a Windows-only question, but I can believe there are
establishments that have standardized on Macs for factory use.
Recently I was required by our IT department to 'upgrade' a couple of
networked factory test PCs (still running LV5.1 apps under Windows 95!)
to Windows 2000, and since the original PCs were decreed too
underpowered, IT gave me a few 'cast-offs', of 400MHz Pentium-II
vintage, as replacements. Long story short, at least one of these has
turned out to be unreliable for long term use, so now I'm given the nod
to buy something akin to the standard-issue current workstation.
We've got a corporate purchase agreement with a big computer
manufacturer (rhymes with 'hell'), and now I'm told that all such PCs
MUST come with a license for MS Office Pro/Exchange/WinServer2003 etc,
which adds close to 500USD to the total. The IT line is, 'If it plugs
into the network, it must include these licenses'. Plus, W2K is no
longer an option, so it comes with WinXPPro, and if you reload the OS,
you're unsupported.
I'm just curious to hear from some of you folks who work for (or
contract for) LMCO, Sperry, Litton, and other medium-to-large
corporations, what your experiences are. Are you free to buy your own
hardware if it goes on the corporate network, or do you get what's
offered? (Usually, I'm more concerned with things like how many open
PCI slots the thing has...)
Best,
Dave
David J Boyd
Senior Test Engineer
Respironics
175 Chastain Meadows Court
Kennesaw GA 30144-3724
(V) 770-429-2809 (F) 770-423-2300
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