Support of obsolete HP9000 kit

[Mike Fisher_1]

Hello

One of our clients has offices in Ireland

They need hardware support on obsolete HP9000 kit

Can anyone recommend a 3rd-party outfit that can cover one or both of these areas?

i] The Republic of Ireland [mainly Dublin]
ii] Northern Ireland

Thank you
Regards
Mike

[harry d brown jr]

http://partsurfer.hp.com for hardware


live free or die
harry

[John Bolene]

Hertz has reservation offices in Swords (beautiful part of the globe I might add), and we use HP for all our maintenance.

While they can be expensive for obsolete hardware, they can usually get it fixed.

Otherwise, you might consider having cold standby parts or whole machines onsite and swap out when something breaks.

[Mike Fisher_1]

Harry:
No problem with finding the parts

John:
1] & the colleens
2] Too old - HP will not consider
3] Good idea - that puts me halfway there, but...

Could do with a 3rd party who'll install replacements on a next day basis

Any names of outfits anyone?

Regards
Mike

[harry d brown jr]

Mike,

These people might do hardware support: http://www.cara.ie/

live free or die
harry

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

If logica aren't your customer I could send a buddy an email who'd probably have the answer, alternatively you could ask at:
http://www.comsys.ie/
Say Bill from Dublin sent you!

Later,
Bill

[Mike Fisher_1]

Harry

They're NT-type people, but cheers for replying

Not too many miles now afor you get home - well deserved

Mike

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Mike


The best way is to talk to HP themsleves , in case they have a support there , I would also recommend that you build a standby inventory of some critcal stuff so that the support is easy .

Some companies do support and stock obsolete stuff.


http://www.alimartech.com/9000_servers.htm




Manoj Srivastava

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Comsys are on one of the main transport axes in Dublin - near the horse racecourse where I won a lot of cash last Christmas - they do 4/8 hour support, and have old 9000 h/w. For Dublin, I don't see you doing much better quickly.
For Belfast, you're talking a 4 hour drive from Dublin, but if you need quicker, I cqn qsk my buddies in ipse-solutions.com, Belfast, who work extensively with hp..

Later,
Bill

[Mike Fisher_1]

Manoj:
Yeah I know Alimar - good people.
We're in the same business so it's not the h/ware
It's having access to an engineer/outfit who's close enough to the client locations to fit the h/ware if necessary
FYI: HP do of course have an Irish presence, but not for stuff this OBSOLETE

Bill:
Appreciated
Perhaps you can send me the name of a contact at Comsys or wherever?

MikeF@chs.eu.com

Good luck with the Boxing Day nags this year

Regards
Mike