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| 3407.1 | rent one | ICS::BEAN | Attila the Hun was a LIBERAL! | Mon Sep 26 1994 01:25 | 1 |
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| 3407.2 | Would a customer wait or shop elsewhere ? | AZUR::NGUYEN | Jeannine Nguyen - EIC VBO - 828-5193 | Mon Sep 26 1994 06:37 | 7 |
| It's what I am doing but before giving any authorization (since we are
going to rent non-DEC H/W), high-level management always asks the usual
have-you-checked-internally-if-you-could-borrow-one question.
Why do we, notebook manufacturer with a 16MB simm in the price list, have
to rent an outside vendor H/W that requires all the VP signature
procedures ?
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| 3407.3 | | ICS::BEAN | Attila the Hun was a LIBERAL! | Mon Sep 26 1994 12:14 | 13 |
| Why do we, ..., have to rent an outside vendor H/W...?
good question. If you find out the answer, please post it here. I
have a rented Compaq on my desk. We use rented PC's in many of our
classrooms (I work for customer training) and I've OFTEN wondered why
we continually shoot ourselves in the foot this way.
IMO it is a symptom of management not really being committed to desktop
computing. Those same VPs you mention who must sign the requisition to
purchase/rent probably don't even USE PCs themselves... unless it's
being used for a video terminal.
tony
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| 3407.4 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Mon Sep 26 1994 12:57 | 3 |
| We don't make our own notebook PCs - they're made by AST.
Steve
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| 3407.5 | It's what's on it that counts a little! | CSC32::M_AUSTIN | Michael,804-237-3796,OLTP-EC | Mon Sep 26 1994 22:36 | 7 |
| >>We don't make our own notebook PCs - they're made by AST.
YEs, but they have OUR name on it!!
Mike A.
DECpc325P user/a.DEC433MP user/VAXStation user/DECstation user
DOS SCO Unix VMS Ultrix
and if I had an ALPHA, I would have two - 1 for OSF/1 and 1 for VMS
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| 3407.6 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Tue Sep 27 1994 05:46 | 11 |
| re: .3
The manager of this group (same group as the author of .0) is very
keen on desktop computing, not to say handheld computing. In fact this
machine (VS2000) was his dial-in host several years ago for
challenge/response dial authentication of his pocket PC from hotels
throughout Europe, in the days when the local IS staff didn't
understand that form of secure dial-in.
However, even the most enthusiastic manager doesn't have a licence
to print money, and there is a site wide guideline to reduce desktop
equipment because desktop equipment is taxed.
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