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>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: [log in to unmask] (David Evans)
>Subject: Computer Upgrades
>Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:16:17 GMT
>We're having a hardware and software upgrade to our Vamp Medical
>system to replace the server, provide Read codes, make us millennium
>compliant etc. I've just discovered that it's happening on Wednesday,
>meaning that we will have at least a whole working day without the
>system. Do other people have to put up with this for planned computer
>upgrades, esp. Vamp users, or are we just not assertive enough to
>insist on having it done on a weekend?
Weekend nothing.
Our upgrades have always gone through over lunchtime.
Mind you, I tended to have only a sandwhich lunch those days.
And of course, in those days our software did not have a Vampiric
stranglehold upon it. Still, there is absolutely no indication that we
will ever have to worry about a Vamp upgrade, since they ain't
developing the system any more.
Make sure your hardware is generic, and check that you have a licence
to continue using it rather than a licence to use it for a year.
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