How much?

18 Jan 2002

...
 Julius Sridhar wrote: 
...
  On Fri, 18 Jan
2002, Eric Dittman wrote:
 That was a good price.  I don't know what a reseller will pay
 you for it, since obviously they make their money by paying
 less for the equipment than they charge.  Considering I've been seeing reseller
prices hovering around $15,000.
 Peace...  Sridhar 
Jerome Fine replies:

I have heard that these VAX systems are needed by the Pentagon
due the the 9/11 problem - they lost quite a few on that day.  So
the resellers are trying to fill orders that are being re-sold at much
higher than normal prices as compared with a year ago.

In general, VMS/VAX systems used by the military can't easily be
modified due to the lack of security in the code from M$ systems.
So they will be stuck having to replace these systems in the short
term and upgrade, when possible, to VMS/Alpha systems to
retain the same features.  That is not always possible when a
program uses VAX hardware in a manner which is hardware
specific.

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine

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