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Testbed Vendor Review and Selection

IEEE Semantic Interoperability Community of Interest,

	I propose we review and select a testbed vendor based on Dan
Brennan's analysis (see attached spreadsheet). 

	It would be great if others could co-fund, but my office will
initially cover this, to get it started quickly.  All group members will
have access to the testbed environment and receive standard technical
support.  Special technical support is available at the stated rates. 
 
	Dan provides his recommendation below, but this is a group
effort, so please provide your input and suggestions.  Obviously we'll
go with group consensus.  Please also post any questions.

Jim Schoening




-----Original Message-----
From: Brennan, Dan Mr CTR USA AMC 
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:59 PM
To: Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC
Subject: Testbed Vendor Recommendation

Jim;

	The first three companies are all excellent sources for us. The
last does not seem to have the level of customer support required. Out
of the first three, Rackspace seems to have the growth and staying power
as well as focus on customer service that we are looking for.
ThePlanet.com appears to be the biggest. It is the grandfather of the
group. They have changed their product offers last month to focus on the
managed servers (which we want). FastServers.net was a tiny company
purchased recently by a larger (over 100 employees) company.
FastServers.net does offer managed servers and offers three levels of
techical support. It is not clear if any of those limited number of
experts will leave due to the merger. So my feeling is that Rackspace is
our #1 choice, followed by ThePlanet, with FastServers a close #3.
 
Dan

Attachment: Server Vendor Comparison.xls
Description: Server Vendor Comparison.xls