[committee] action item reminders

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri May 11 09:25:34 WST 2007


On Fri, 11 May 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Thu, May 10, 2007, Davyd Madeley wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:25:47PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 May 2007, James Andrewartha wrote:
>>>
>>>> Switches - even the equivalent D-Link costs more than the HP switch
>>>
>>> Ok, I tell a lie, the D-Link 1224T can be had for $470, but the HP is
>>> available for $540 and is going to be infinitely less shit.
>>
>> This is a 24x 1000mbit switch? Why is the price so good?
>
> Because its targetted as a workgroup switch, not as infrastructure.
> It only has a Web UI rather than CLI, and it has to be priced
> low to compete with all the other bullshit quality gige workgroup
> switches out there.

Also the Ingram Micro are discounting the HP by $110 and the D-Link by 
$150 at the moment.

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