The company I work for has a disaster recovery contract with HP. With our
first test they delivered a system unlike ours but HP was able to change the
characteristics for this system, so that we wouldn't have to deal with
calling suppliers for reactivation of software before and after the disaster
would take place.

> We are currently looking at a contract with a recovery service company to
> provide hardware and workspace in the event we lose it all ( no this is
not
> Y2K paranoia... just a general disaster recovery plan ).
>
> They will provide a 3000 that matches our current configuration. But, when
I
> asked them about the HPSUSAN and HPCPUNAME on the new machine being
matched
> to our current system so our 3rd party software would continue to run,
their
> reponse was that most 3rd party software has a trial period built in that
we
> could use to run on their system.
>
> This seems a bit iffy to me.
>
> Have any of you dealt with this? If so, how?
>