Jim's question was simple. Other than IBM and SUN/STK, who services RVAs these days?
Twenty-five years ago, I worked for Sorbus and they were the largest 3rd party maintenance provider of IBM equipment. They were bought and renamed by Bell Atlantic into, I think, Bell Atlantic Business Systems. At this point, I lost track of them. I think other competitors at the time were TRW, but my memory may be shoddy on this. The other point of his email was to be informative about Friday's discontinuance date. Bob --------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM 9393 RVAs "Obsolete" for Sure When I worked for the state government about a million years ago, the *last* thing we ever wanted to do was to put out a RFP for new purchased equipment. Because we had a competitive bidding process, we couldn't just do a make-and-model RFP -- we had to write general specifications for what we wanted, perhaps with the services of a technical consultant, run it through the lawyers, publish it, accept bids, judge the "lowest and best", make a recommendation to the Board, wait for the Board to make an award... and THEN deal with the unsuccessful bidders who would frequently contest the bid award, and sometimes have to go through the bidding process a second time. If Jim has an Iceberg that runs perfectly well, I can understand if maintaining it is preferable to going through the acquisition process. You're not always able to run the business like a business, not when public money is involved. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
