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- From: furnari@sp66.csrd.uiuc.edu (Mario Furnari)
- Subject: Re: DEC Support?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.054500.2450@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL
- References: <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov16.235148.9336@eco.twg.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 05:45:00 GMT
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- I read this article on DEC support:
-
- |>Path: eco.twg.com!uunet!ukma!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!dgray
- |>From: dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.)
- |>Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- |>Subject: DEC Support?
- |>Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:34:48 GMT
- |>Organization: Academic Computer User Services
- |>Lines: 28
- |>Message-ID: <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu>
- |>Reply-To: DGray@uh.edu
- |>NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu
- |>
- |>
- |>I always thought that Digital "I wanna be IBM in the 90s" Equipment
- |>Corp always justified their outrageously high prices with their
- |>support. However, it seems that DEC isn't the slightest bit
- |>interested in their customers. I sight several things:
- |>
- |>First, the technical sales line (800-DIGITAL) sometimes cannot even
- |>tell me what parts I can use with my machine.
- |>
- |>DEC "support" will not even talk to you unless you have one of their
- |>outrageously priced service contracts. Besides, I thought the high
- |>equipment prices went to pay for support...
- |>
- |>And now they cannot even supply tapes for their own machines. A local
- |>office supply has a 3M equililent to the TK50 tapes, but all three of
- |>the DEC distributors I called have back orders (one guy said they had
- |>"several thousand on order"). This is really insane.
- |>
- |>I just hope I can be around to see DEC founder and sink like IBM is
- |>doing now...
- |>
- |>Disgusted,
- |>-dennis
- |>---
- |>Dennis Gray, Jr. DGray@uh.edu
- |> "In UNIX We Trust" -Jerry Raschke
- |>
- |>
- |>
- > Gee... you seem bitter ;-)
-
- I think that it is not so rare to have a so bad support from DEC.
- In italy my feeling is , and I have at 200 pages of letters sent to
- DEC Support without receiving back any answer to support my claim,
- the DEC is interested to pick up money from custmore pocket.
- I never got any answer to any problem that I submitted, the only way that
- i got ultrix support was through the comp.unix.ultrix newsgroup.
-
- Recently, at the list for DEC timing scale but 6 months ago, I asked
- support for Ultrix on DECStation 2100.
- The problem was the impossibility to link dynamically the DECWindow library
- I want to use this feature to develop an X-Window interface using CLX.
-
- The answer that I received, after a month, from DEC in Italy "please do not
- bother us with this kind of well known problems, ask to the news net"
-
- In July, I wrote a complaining letter to DEC Corporation in the USA,
- again the same history, no answer back.
-
- In September I had the opprtunity to talk with the DEC Corporation
- ULTRIX product marketing.
-
- I'm still waiting not for a solution to my problem, but at least for
- official answer
-
- Then I think that DEC not consider at all the customer problems
-
- That it is all, for me it also enough
-
- Mario Furnari
- Istituto di Cibernetica
- Arco Felice - Naples
- Italy
- mf@arco.na.cnr.it
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