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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!uchinews!machine!chinet!ignatz
- From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
- Subject: Re: >>An example of Dell's product support (Esix here I come...)
- Summary: Mea Culpa
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.190138.20164@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Sender: Dave Ihnat
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:01:38 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.214033.4037@digibd.com> <1992Jul21.170345.19565@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Jul22.210113.24810@sco.COM>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Keywords: DELL Unix SVR4
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1992Jul22.210113.24810@sco.COM> staceyc@sco.COM (Stacey Campbell) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul21.170345.19565@chinet.chi.il.us> ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat) writes:
- >>Come on, folks--drop the flames, keep it to
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>issues, and above all, don't let the polemic get to the point that Dell
- >>management forbids the kind of close contact that we've been using. They're
- >>learning; if somebody does something that you consider unprofessional or
- >>counter-productive, say so in unbiased and frank terms, without trying out
- >>you new flamethrower. Or they *will* become another USL or SCO...
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Yipes, it is hard to play nice isn't it? Just for the record* SCO employees
- >are encouraged to make "close contact" with customers via the net, we are
- >also encouraged to keep it professional, productive, unbiased and frank.
-
- I've already been taken to task for this, and will admit that my experiences
- with SCO are a couple of years old; it is time to refresh my relationship
- with them vis a vis support. (Old experiences *do* die hard.) In fact,
- I'm starting this now with a new client, so I'll withhold any statements about
- SCO until I deal with the current support folks. Again, apologies for
- not updating my personal experience file before posting...
-
- Dave Ihnat
- ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us (preferred return address)
- ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us
-