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This basically leaves them with these suppliers:
- Dell
- HP
- Lenovo/IBM
- Cisco
- Oracle
.


Given the size of their operation, they can talks directly to Asian manufacturers like Quanta and spec their own servers.

They probably do use Dell/HP/IBM for some of the stuff like their SAP installation. But anything that runs their own software anyway can go on whitebox-hardware.
 
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