Since it is the government, the normal course of action would be to get a special bid from IBM to continue to maintain them at 10x the cost of buying new.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:05:13 +0100, R.S. wrote: >> >>BTW: I think your current maintenance fee is enough high to BUY more >>contemporary DASD array on second hand market. With 1 year warranty. I >>bet the maint fee for two months would be enough. >>Don't take it personally, but this is good example how to waste money. >> > Don't forget; this is the US Government. (Perhaps hard to explain > to someone not from the US.) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
