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<p>Hallo John,</p>
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<p>Freitag, 3. April 2009, meintest Du:</p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>JH> 2009/4/3 Mike Davis <</span><a class=rvts7 href="mailto:jmdavis1@vcu.edu">jmdavis1@vcu.edu</a><span class=rvts8>>:</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts9>>> > My experience is the polar opposite. SGI quotes took forever. And that</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts9>>> situation goes back to the mid 90's. I can usually have a Sun quote in</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts9>>> hours.</span></p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>JH> This should not turn into a slanging match, but I'll back Stuart up.</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>JH> SGI can ands have responded in a very timely fashion.</span></p>
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<p>Quotes are done by People...not companies. So maybe that is the difference here? ;-)</p>
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<p>On the other hand: most SalesReps are selling printers, screens, PCs...and sometimes a cluster. So the knowledge in that area is limited. SGI is not selling all the stuff besides servers/storage/clusters and that makes a SalesRep automatically better in quoting the stuff you are asking for...</p>
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<p>Jan</p>
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