2 Apr
1999
2 Apr
'99
12:54 a.m.
*Compaq
recommends that all other customers purchase Compaq's In-
*stallation Services. These services provide for installation of the
*software product by an experienced Compaq Software Specialist.
> If you want to see how much a "Compaq Software Specialist" knows about
> the PDP-11 OS's, just look at some recent postings to vmsnet.pdp-11 where
> a Compaq employee is trying to ask how to run BRU under RSX-11. Hell, my office didn't know how to install and
sysgen RT11 in 1986.
For quite some time, when DEC decides that they fired/laid off/re-assigned
the personnel that knew how to do the job, they've been going to outside
sources (such as Mentec), and these outside sources often been hiring
outside consultants. The markup after going through this chain of
"resellers" is truly amazing; in some cases the customer has ended up
paying $10K just for installation of a RSX11M+-with-TCPIP upgrade, for
example.
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