> One unnamed vendor told me IBM would not be able to call them for
> assistance, with their distribution, if I bought support from IBM.

This sounds like classic FUD.  And the classic response is to write to the unnamed 
vendor on
headed paper asking for confirmation of this position.

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  Phil Payne
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