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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS is not the evil empire
Message-ID: <9842@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 15:04:23 GMT
References: <12067@brl-adm.ARPA> <707@hdr.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <707@hdr.UUCP> eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes:
>[...]
>What does this have to do with choosing VMS over Ultrix?  Well, at least
>in our area, one would probably receive better *local* support for VMS
>than Ultrix.  KEEP IN MIND I am referring to LOCAL support!  Both VMS
>and Ultrix 'OS' (long distance call) level support for us has been excellent.


  I think the quality of support has to do with the question asked. If
they know the answer you get good service. If they don't you may spend
some time convincing them that the problem is real. We spent a month
waiting to get Message Router v1.x talking to v2.x. I'm told that this
is true of other vendors ;-<
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me