Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!ted@braggvax.arpa From: ted@braggvax.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Non DEC maintenance experiences Message-ID: <9493@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 15:09:18 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.9493 Posted: Fri Sep 25 15:09:18 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 01:35:38 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 16 I'm posting this for a friend, so please direct mail replies to kenw@braggvax.arpa The question is this: We are thinking about dropping our DEC maint contract on our 11/780 (braggvax). Does anyone have any experiences (positive or negative) about third party maintenance or DEC per call maintenance that would be helpful to us in deciding whether to do this or not? Anyone who's particularly good or bad? Our environment is 4.3BSD Unix (not VMS). Thanks Ted Nolan