Re: Oracle system sizer

On 1 Jun 2001, at 5:20, Ray Stell wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:21:03PM -0800, sh.476622 sh476622 wrote:
> > Has somebody practical experience with the Oracle system sizer of Compaq ?
> >
> > Does the suggested configuration comes up to expectations ?
> --
> I just spoke with a compaq sales droid ...
> ... They are pretty hungry
> to sell systems.

Ha! we had some guys from a big reseller on campus last week talking to the desktop support group, and the reseller sales critters seemed *really* desperate to sell *anything*, they babbled on for a long time about "technology transfer" of "infrastructure management" (software/hardware inventory, etc.), "help desk" functions, and so forth, and even after they were told that the union gives the kiss of death to almost anything that even vaguely sounds like "outsourcing", they continued babbling about how they would be happy to sell their methods alone, if not the infrastructure and expert personnel to do them. even after it was explained that it isn't knowledge and methods that are usually the hold up in doing better IS management stuff (it is usally stupid inter-office politics and lack of vision) they said they could still "work with that" and still sell us stuff. bizarre.

regards,
ep

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