I hear both of your advice loud and clear; in fact, WITH A MEGAPHONE!!
 There is one thing I failed to mention
in this email and have been reluctant to face! And that's, that I may not
have an HP3000 a year from now.:( (Not my decision!)  That is why costs are
such a factor in my posts!  Managements arguments are why put so much money
into something you plan to phase out within a year.

Long live MPE/ix!!

Michael A. Dobies
BI, Incorporated
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-----Original Message-----
From:   James Trudeau [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, October 01, 1997 12:57 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: TurboStore maintenance-Who needs it?

Mike,
How about when you expand your disc farm, go to DDS-2, drive a
couple of them in paralell and start coming down with a variety
of VSTORE errors,  RESTORE with LISTDIR errors, and one
of 'em croaks 4 months later?  My suggestion, learned in a
hard fashion, is listen to Joe.

jt

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From:   Joe Geiser
Sent:   Wednesday, October 01, 1997 2:44 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: TurboStore maintenance-Who needs it?

On Wednesday, October 01, 1997 1:43 PM, MIKE DOBIES [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> I've upgraded to MPE/iX 5.0 in February and did the trial thing with
> Turbo store.  Since then, the trial period has run out.  I'm in the
process of getting a quote for
> TurboStore and it's included a price for maintenance or support.  What
would be the
> need for support for this product?  During the trial period, I
> found it easy enough to store & restore files and/or accounts.
>
> Is there something I don't know about?

Mike,

How about updates when you go and upgrade the OS to 5.5 or 6.0 (when it
ships)?  Without support, you don't get the updates.

Regards,
Joe

Joe Geiser, CSI Business Solutions LLC
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