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From: rhbartels@watcgl.UUCP (Richard Bartels)
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Subject: VAX in-house maintenance
Message-ID: <2076@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 15:48:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 15:48:52 1985
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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The University of Waterloo is preparing a proposal
for a second, three-year infrastructure grant to support
computer research.  What we need more than anything
is money to keep our computers (currently 18 VAXen)
on the job, but the maintenance money in the first
grant was cut in half, because the Canadian Government's
National Science and Engineering Research Council,
the granting agency, does not look with favor on DEC
maintenance contracts.  We limped along for three years,
and now we are asking for money again.  In order to
surrender to the NSERC's view and go in-house, or alternatively
to fight it out with them toe-to-toe, we need facts and figures.
 
I would appreciate learning the name and phone number of any
person responsible for the finances and/or technicalities of
maintaining a similar number of VAXen, in-house, in a university
environment.  Reply to me, personally (of course) by E-mail:

Richard Bartels  (...decvax!watmath!rhbartels)
		 (na.bartels@su-score.arpa)
		 (rhbartels@waterloo.csnet)