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- From: pweber@ws21.mcs.loral.com (Paul Weber)
- Subject: Re: Looking for some help from someone with The Source
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.123228.2058@wdl.loral.com>
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- References: <1992Aug11.223032.2918@erg.sri.com> <22817@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:32:28 GMT
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- >I have a different perspective which is in conflict with your last statement.
- >We asked the CHS (Common Hardware/Software) office their stance on using 8.0
- >long ago. They indicated that an ECP was written and submitted in March. The
- >people I talked to indicated that it was their intent to get 8.0 into the CHS-1
- >inventory ASAP but realistically that it would probably not "officially" be
- >under contract until April 1993. However, they fully expected the ECP to be
- >approved by the September 1992 time frame. Note that the submitter of the ECP
- >had already received the first round of questions back from the army in April.
- >If I were in your shoes I would ask my customer what's wrong with upgrading to
- >8.0 now since the Army is actively pursuing the upgrade also.
- >
- We here at MCS have virtually the same problem, but not the same story. At
- one time, via contract I believe, when HP upgraded the OS, so did we, then
- that was removed from the contract. Evidently it was too costly to upgrade
- the entire US Army (my guess, that's not official). MCS is up for recompete
- and if a different platform is used vice HP, say IBM or SUN [cough, cough,
- gag, gag : ) ] Then the money spent on upgrading the OS was wasted since the
- software is now being ported to a new platform. HP has been extremely
- helpful with any OS problems. For how much longer, I don't know. I am told
- they will only support back two versions of OS. For the 9000/300 series, 7.0
- is it.
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