You could move to Aurora (sparc linux) with Lvm and disk mirroring...
Openoffice, and Ximian, etc.
Ok, I just had to put that in;-)
--Dean
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Dima wrote:
>
> Hi, Betsy,
>
> I have a solution for you:
>
> 1. Call EMC and get PowerPath-4, it has
> basically the same functionality as
> Veritas. Make sure to ask for competitive
> bid. If you want, I can try to ship your phone
> number to cold sales dept :-)
>
> 2. Better yet, call Veritas and tell them you
> will call EMC.
>
> Alternatively, don't talk to salesman, talk to
> sales manager. Complain.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Betsy Schwartz wrote:
>
> > Has anyone here gone with any vendor other than Veritas for Veritas
> > support? I'm getting what I think is a really outrageous quote from them.
> > Our previous admin let the maintenance lapse for a couple years, and
> > Veritas wants to charge BOTH retroactive maintenance back to day one AND a
> > reinstatement fee of 25% of the cost. I don't see why we should pay for a
> > time when we were not actually covered and weren't supposed to be covered.
> > And I really don't see why we should pay *twice* for that past period.
> >
> > Plus, we have one system for which we bought File System and Volume Manager
> > separately, so they insist that we have to pay separate maintenance
> > forever, instead of a less expensive "Foundation Suite" support contract.
> > Not a big price difference, but annoying. (reminds me of the one and only
> > time I took a Toyota into the dealer for maintenance.)
> >
> > But what other good options are there?
> >
> > I am not an experienced Veritas admin so I do want some backup - and access
> > to updates and patches.
> >
> > thanks Betsy
> >
> >
> > Betsy Schwartz email:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Unix Systems Administrator,CRG voice: 617-495-5947
> > Harvard Graduate School of Design fax: 617-496-5866
> >
> >
> >
> >
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