RE: Dealing with the IBM bureaucracy

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried to buy 100 used drives from IBM direct last week.  You would think
that would be a simple transaction.  I needed them quickly.  I gave the guy
6 days and he could not get them shipped.  He kept saying how much red tape
he had to go thru. 
Amazing that I was begging them to take my business.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: glea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:glea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 11:58 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Dealing with the IBM bureaucracy


Rob,

Thanks for your reply.  The issue here is not whether Microsoft would do 
the same thing (or worse) but that this particular division of IBM is 
treating us as if we were criminals intent on ripping them off, not 
customers in good standing of over 20 years.  Kudos to your boss for 
making plans to move to Linux.  I suppose that would come with its own 
problems to.  You might have SCO knocking at your door demanding licensing 
fees...

Gary S. Lea 
Applications Group Manager 
Dexter Magnetic Technologies, Inc. 
Tel: 510-668-4645 
Fax: 510-668-5425 
glea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


>date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:24:11 -0500
>from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
>subject: Re: Problems with moving IBM software form one machine to
>                another
>
>You ought to try dealing with Microsoft and keeping track of their
>licensing.  We do things on the up-and-up here but the boss is seriously 
>moving the user desktops to Linux after that last Microsoft audit.
>
>Rob Berendt
>--
>Group Dekko Services, LLC
>Dept 01.073
>PO Box 2000
>Dock 108
>6928N 400E
>Kendallville, IN 46755
>http://www.dekko.com
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