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The same goes for the VP who hired the consulting firm for Carrier Corporation. He was later fired after getting a great deal on central consulting for systems and network management. Everything was leased and the consultants didn't see a reason for the Carrier Engineering staff to use Alphas or Suns. Then, they too got a "great deal" on double the price, leased Dell computers (low-end business class machines, not the $2000.00+ US ones, that well, these lower class ones were priced above). The networking was a laugh too. The consulting firm convinced that same VP (before he was fired) that usin some no-name brand, P.O.S. series of routers and switches was far better than using Cisco equipment. When asked about the savings, he was told by the consultants, "oh, you'll save about 10-20% over buying or leasing the Cisco equipment." One of the engineers got a problem with his departmental router one day after the tiny hours the consultants kept and decided to call the manufacturer to repair said issues himself. First noticeable problem: international number, non-800. Second problem: when reaching them, they did not speak English. Third: It was a small custom builder/manufacturer out of Taiwan. Fourth and final: they had difficulty finding their own staff person who wrote the code for the router, let alone anyone who knew anything of that router series. True story. Most people were wondering why Carrier was doing so bad. It was dumb, money driven, hey it's Windows-based, morons who got put into control somehow. This year is the first year since that VP was fired and lo and behold: they are starting to rebound and actually hire more staff than do massive plant layoffs and shutdowns. I hear next year that they are going to try to get DEC Alphas and AMD Opterons in there for the engineers (Suns use Opterons now too =/ ). -John Boffemmyer IV At 03:15 PM 6/26/2004, you wrote: ---------------------------------------- Founder, Lead Writer, Tech Analyst and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html ---------------------------------------