How much?

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Fri Jan 18 08:46:12 2002

>Julius Sridhar wrote:

> >On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > That was a good price. I don't know what a reseller will pay
> > you for it, since obviously they make their money by paying
> > less for the equipment than they charge.
> Considering I've been seeing reseller prices hovering around $15,000.
> Peace... Sridhar

Jerome Fine replies:

I have heard that these VAX systems are needed by the Pentagon
due the the 9/11 problem - they lost quite a few on that day. So
the resellers are trying to fill orders that are being re-sold at much
higher than normal prices as compared with a year ago.

In general, VMS/VAX systems used by the military can't easily be
modified due to the lack of security in the code from M$ systems.
So they will be stuck having to replace these systems in the short
term and upgrade, when possible, to VMS/Alpha systems to
retain the same features. That is not always possible when a
program uses VAX hardware in a manner which is hardware
specific.

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
Received on Fri Jan 18 2002 - 08:46:12 GMT