andy (11/10/82)
Hi, To my query about buying a VAX without also buying VMS. The majority of the responses stated that you had to buy VMS with your VAX. This is apparently not true a few sites have managed to by Vaxen (from DEC) without VMS and they also managed to get DEC field service without having a VMS license. It seems that inorder to buy a VAX without VMS one has to be persistant. If the sales- man won't sell it to you you should talk to his boss and if that doesn't work you should talk to the boss' boss... etc. Andy ps. We're buying VMS, it turns out that we are getting a tremendous discount from DEC because we are an OEM and we are buying all DEC equipment. It would be silly to not take advantage of the benefits of having VMS on site.
rjk (11/12/82)
An effective deterrent for the sales unit who persists in forcing VMS on you with your VAX: "Ok, thanx - I'll buy the 3B20S" Of course, that only works within AT&T (for now)...