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- Path: sparky!uunet!mdisea!mdivax1!van-bc!twg!bill
- From: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Hardware maintenance for 486 running SCO UNIX
- Keywords: maintenance
- Message-ID: <2828@twg.bc.ca>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 07:41:51 GMT
- References: <C0q1p1.89u@panix.com>
- Reply-To: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
- Organization: The Westrheim Group, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Lines: 36
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- nedwall@panix.com (Ned Wall) writes:
-
- : The company I work for has purchased an AST Premium SE 4/50
- : running SCO UNIX. My level of UNIX understanding would best
- : be described as beginner (but willing to learn). Should I be
- : looking for a hardware maintenance vendor with a UNIX back-
- : ground or would a vendor from the PC/Novell world be OK?
-
- : Our hardware consists of the AST with duplexed disk drives,
- : tape backup, 2 16 port DigiBoards, 17 terminals and 3 PCs.
-
- For hardware maintenance you should get a company that
- understands UNIX thoroughly. This may not be easy to do, and it
- will be difficult for a person not fluent in UNIX to determine if
- a potential service company knows what they are talking about.
-
- Many problems that occur are not clearly hardware or software.
- You need a company that understands the O/S so they can either
- fix it or tell you how to fix it when the hardware is not the
- problem. When it is, you will need components replaced quickly,
- to minimize your downtime. Select a service company that has a
- decent stock of spare parts so you aren't waiting for them to be
- shipped around while your users are pacing outside your office
- door.
-
- This is the business we are in, and I know how difficult it will
- be for you to find what I am describing because I know what many
- of our competitors are like. It is probably the same in your
- area. But it is worth looking, because finding a good service
- provider can bring much peace of mind when the nasty things that
- plague us all come to bite you.
- --
- Bill Irwin - The Westrheim Group - Vancouver, BC, Canada
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