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In article <1993Jan19.122854.22863@jyu.fi>, HOUGHTON@jylk.jyu.fi (DAVID HOUGHTON, LK) writes:
>We are hoping to obtain a DEC 3000/400 AXP but have to convince
>our management that this is going to be a good buy. There are
>those amongst us that would rather invest in SUN Microsystems.
>We already possess a VAX4000 and several SUNs, both systems
>support SAS/SPSX and a bunch of maths packages for graphics,
>simulation and optimisation.
>
>Has anyone out there had a similar task in convincing their
>management that 
>
>	a) Alpha is the way to go
>	b) Licencing/software costs are favourable
>	c) SUNs are not the way to go
>	d) OpenVMS is better than OSF
>	e) Support for application software is no problem
>
We've used the following arguments:
  1) Manhours investment in VMS  (over 300 manyears in one case)
  2) Conversion costs/downtime
  3) Performance advantage over SPARC 10 (significant)
  4) Pricing is much better
  5) You will not experience the grief of going to Solaris 2.0 (if you thought
     VMS 4.0 or VMS 5.0 were bad...)
  6) If the decision is made to run Unix or OSF, the AXP can.  The SPARC can't
     run VMS.
  7) VMS is compliant with all final POSIX specs (and in line with most of the
     preliminary ones).
  8) It's what I want  -  Well, this one doesn't work often   :-)

Good luck.
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