About Veritas, Was Re: Message for Joe Heck - re. 7 Track tape drives

From: Jim Davis <jpdavis_at_gorge.net>
Date: Fri Dec 19 10:38:57 2003

Jan_Wood_at_veritasdgc.com wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I just found a message you wrote back in September mentioning a selection
> of old track tape drives. I run a computer department on the services
> side
> of the Oil industry and we specialise in maintaining and transcribing
> data
> from these older types of media. We have almost everything used in our
> industry from analogue tapes onwards. Anyway, I am always trying to find
> 21, 7 and 9 track tape drives, especially old IDT's. Would you still have
> the drives you mentioned in your email? If so I'd like to know if
> you'd be
> prepared to let them go to a good home where they can spin tapes again?
>
> Best regards,
> Jan.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Mr Jan T. Wood
> Data Services Manager
> Veritas DGC Limited.
> Telephone DD: +44 (0)1293 443263
> Facsimile: +44 (0)1293 443200
> Mobile: 0 77 11 66 4545
>
>
>
>
>
 From veritas about web page:

VERITAS Software Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTS) is headquartered in Mountain
View, Calif.,
and employs more than 6,300 people in 36 countries. With annualized
revenues over $1.5 billion
in 2002, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in
the world.
Through its award-winning and market-leading products focused on
business efficiency
and continuity, VERITAS Software provides the building blocks for
utility computing.

This is a big operation, Any transactions with this company should be on
a BUSINESS basis.
That then begs the question, Is it ethical ( for a CC'er ) to sell or
give classic equipment to
a large corporation for the profit of this operation? Most likely the
equipment will
be locked up in some machine room available at $1000/hr? It's also an
oil operation.
I'll leave the members of CC to judge. Their product is mapping data
sets for oil exploration.
One more question? Has Veritas done anything to help the CC cause?
My bad to cc/on-topic ( posted to the wrong group)
Jim Davis.
Received on Fri Dec 19 2003 - 10:38:57 GMT