[Info-vax] UK HP Contract terms and conditions

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00a45668$0$1468$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> For truly paranoid people who really really need redundancy, you might
> want to have your backup system on a separate maintenance contract. Say
> there is a paperwork safu and some drone in india who screen support
> calls sess that your contract has expired and that your mission critical
> system that is down cannot be fixed, at least you know that the backup
> system, being on a separate contract, would be suppported.

   Poorly worded, but the contract also seemed to be pointing at the
   customer as being responsible for off-site backup.  Even VMS only
   ran through 9/11 by having off-site clustering for systems in the
   towers.