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Some decades ago we used third party maintenance. What we discovered is
that when IBM artificially jacked their prices up to say "Look, buy this
new hardware and you'll save all this money on maintenance on the older
stuff" that the third party maintenance people immediately jacked theirs
up to IBM - x%.
No, I think that if you are going to stay with obsolete hardware that
you'd better be prepared to have a host of spare parts on site and be
quite handy with tools (or in Larry's case - a cutting torch and a
welder). If you're into that stuff there is often a host of used
equipment available on ebay for less than one months maintenance of this
old equipment. So keep one or two on site.
James may be ok on the smaller boxes. But the big iron (like B50's, 740's
etc) would definitely be a big improvement to go with something better in
power consumption.
Heck, we upgraded our 570 to a MMA and significantly cut the draw on our
UPS. Granted, we also disposed of 9 IXS cards that power 6 obsoleted (and
the two towers to hold them).
Rob Berendt
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