OT RE: RE: Interesting News..

Eric;

I was a CONSULTANT. Have been a CONSULTANT for clients owning DEC/COMPAQ going back almost ten years. I am not a bad person, and I hope you like me. Because I want a chance to hit you over the head with my mail rhet - eric.

My experiences with DEC have been spotty, from pretty good to hideously and expensively ineffectual. It's the unpredictability that really kills me.

Sounds to me like you are angry about something. I can identify. You see, I hate sh*tty service, too.

Oh, I'd call you a name, but I ran out of adjectives. :-)

Hook
aka a UNSATISFIED Customer Service Victim: COMPAQ.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 5:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Eric:
I am a CUSTOMER. Have been a CUSTOMER of Dec/Compaq for more than 20 years. In those 20 years I've ACTUALLY PAID MONEY FOR PRODUCTS. I'm not a lying vendor, nor
am I a lying employee.

My experiences with DEC/Conpaq have consistently been between good and excellent.

Sounds to me like you're having a bad day (month? year?) If you got all of that out of Jon's comment, maybe you should be writing for the Jerry Springer show????

Barb
aka a SATISFIED Compaq customer

> ----------
> From: Eric D. Pierce[SMTP:PierceED_at_csus.edu]
> Reply To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:17 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: RE: Interesting News..
>
> K-
>
> I apparently made the mistake of thinking that the US constitution
> says that there is a right to FREE SPEECH in this friggin country.
>
> I'm reporting what a reseller is saying about his several years of
> experience, and what bugs the daylights out of the people that
> ACTUALLY PAY MONEY FOR A PRODUCT (known as "customers" for those that
> have never heard the word before).
>
> Note that the resalescritter was specifically addressing the
> headaches reported by CUSTOMERS at sites using service offerings in
> the "SUB-enterprise" category.
>
> Anyone feel free to call me an idiot (HELP), that I'm wrong, or
> whatever, but absent the technical merits of a "pro-Compaq" position
> having been presented in detail, all I hear is someone acting like a
> pissy little fascist.
>
> My writing wasn't exacty at the level of the Great Bard, but it would
> help if people would read a bit more carefully before they barf.
>
> Speaking of which, I'm sick of all the crap (lying/etc.) from vendors
> and their employees and the friends of their employees, and having
> them expecting the customers to kiss their a$$es all the time because
> they are some big megacorp.
>
> Of course the good news is that I can now go around telling people
> that if they want good services, they should buy IBM since there are
> so many a$$holes in the Compaq world.
>
> brgrds,
> ep
>
> [ via ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001, Number 251]
>
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > From: Kimberly Smith <kimberly.smith_at_gmd.fujitsu.com>
> > Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 08:16:35 -0700
> > Subject: RE: Interesting News..
> >
> > Jon, you need to get some thick skin. My company is destroyed quite
> often
> > in this list (although it has been a while).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:50 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Eric:
> >
> > While I can appreciate that your opinion of the Compaq Services division
> > might be less than positive, would you please, for the sake of those who
> > actually work for these companies, be a little less dramatic in your
> > expression of that opinion.
> >
> > Jon Walthour
> > Oracle Database Administrator
> > COMPAQ DBA Team
> > Cincinnati, Ohio
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:22 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > According to our hardware resalescritter: especially for anything
> > below large enterprise level, both HP and Compaq services suck.
> >
> > so, I guess the objective is to create a new company who services
> > suck even more than either individually?
> >
> > Synergy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >
> >
> > > Guy Hammond wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On the contrary, I'd say this is a godsend for Sun. Compaq made a
> mess
> > > > of truly epic proportions when they tried to integrate DEC and
> Tandem
> > > > into their operations. HP did just as badly with Apollo.
> >
> > ...
>
>
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