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Locating Used Sun Enterprise 10000s For Sale?

Posted by Cliff on from the corporate-garage-sales dept.

AtariDatacenter asks: "My employer is having trouble, outside of eBay, locating used Sun Enterprise 10000 servers for sale. (In fact, they approved asking Slashdot for ideas.) Anyone have any good ideas on sourcing used E10ks?"

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  1. what's wrong with ebay? by intuition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is wrong with ebay?

    I find for more expensive items it is a good way to find some contacts. (rather than actually executing the sale)

  2. Remanufactured systems by ratatosk · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm guessing you've already tried: Recurrent SunSurplus and of course Sun's Certified Remanufactured Systems

    /wulff

  3. Absence of big machines by djweis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Part of the reason for the scarcity is because Sun (and other companies like Cisco) go to auctions and other places that machines like this are sold used and buy them, either to refurb themselves or to dispose of/sit on. All of the companies going out of business and dumping their equipment is killing the new market. Even if Sun buys a machine for the same cost as they would sell it to you, their numbers look better in terms of new machine sales.