Most 3rd party companies will provide a disaster recovery mode for their
software.  This might be a demo mode of their software, or in at least one
vendor's case, a true diaster mode, which allows it to run a specific number
of days.  Other vendors just require a quick phone call to validate their
product.  We've been testing for over 5 years, and this has never been a
problem.


Gary Paveza, Jr.
Technical Support Specialist
All opinions are my own and not those of my employer


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Chuck Ryan [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Monday, December 20, 1999 4:13 PM
        To:     [log in to unmask]
        Subject:        Disaster Recovery

        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?