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- From: philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Frustrated with SGI support..
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.094110.19191@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 09:41:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.204858.17847@Princeton.EDU>
- Sender: news@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za
- Organization: Computer Science Dept, Wits University
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- In article <1992Dec29.204858.17847@Princeton.EDU> Brett Borowski,
- brett@surfpix.princeton.edu writes:
- >Does my company get lousy service because it's so small? Am I the only
- >one who gets lousy service? It seems to me, that unless you pay for
- >phone support, the only thing SGI wants to know about are purchase
- >orders.
-
- I don't really need software support but I'd like to be able to buy
- an upgrade - just a CD, not the whole package - at a modest price when
- I judge the timing to be right. It seems there is no such option: you
- have to buy the complete OS or go on support. Definitely not a small
- user-friendly organization. (Rivals like Sun and NeXT can do this
- so I don't see what the big problem is.)
- --
- Philip Machanick
- Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
- philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za phone: 27 (11) 716-3759 fax: 339-7965
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