Re: EMC Drives

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:32 AM 5/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>       My parent company is considering purchasing EMC drives for their new 
>7XX 
>AS/400.  They will be purchasing almost a terabyte of DASD.  Does anyone 
>have any thoughts as to why they should or shouldn't do this.  Thanks in 
>advance for any assistance.
>
EMC is getting very aggressive in this area of the marketplace.  I suggest
that you see what the residual value of these drives is (survey
independently - w/o the aid of EMC) 20 minutes after you take delivery.

There is also something to be said from buying an integrated solution from
one vendor (IBM).  When it breaks, you point at the IBM CE and say "fix
it".  There's no figure pointing.

Al - in Lake Geneva Wisconsin




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