Bradley,

please get in touch with ORBiT Software US on 1-800-89-ORBIT, or
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The url is www.orbitsw.com. Sorry for the disconvenience. Hope to see
you as a ORBiT
Customer soon.

Best Regards

Xavier Tremoureux
ORBiT Software FRANCE



Cynthia Fowler a écrit :

> Speaking from experience with ORBiT, they hit us for $30,000 in upgrade fees going
> from a 987/200SX box to a 979KS400 box. We dropped the product and now use
> HP TurboStore True Online 7x24. We had purchased ORBiT to accommodate our
> DLT4000 backup unit, but we can use TurboStore with it (on 5.5pp7 with a
> supplemental patch installed)  now, which was not available on 5.5pp5. Works well
> and we don't have the extra costs. We now have a DLT7000 and cut our backup
> time in half.
>
> Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
> MIS Operation Analyst
> IMC Salt, Inc., a division of IMC Global
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> >>> Chuck Ryan <[log in to unmask]> 04/03/00 10:25AM >>>
> Only in the mini/mainframe market can a vendor get away with treating its
> purchase price as confidential information.
>
> If they cannot tell me what it will cost to purchase their software, I get
> extremely concerned about what they will hit me for come upgrade time, and
> generally look elsewere before considering them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley Dean [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:50 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Orbit software
>
> My company was looking into purchasing a software package called 'Orbit' to
> do our backups on, and I was trying to find out what the cost of the package
> was.  Another programmer and I were evaluating it for our supervisor, but
> the company will not give out the price to anyone who is not authorized to
> make a purchase.  Does anyone know about how much this software package
> costs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bradley Dean
> Programmer
> Cott Systems
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