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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (36681)	11/16/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

VARs Screwed by Assembly & Service Plans as well You do make valid points when dealing with Box Pushers. Many VARs Don't sell any white box brands, and they are now expected to have their $125/hr billible technicians build Compaq clones in the VARs office. Needless to say, that will NEVER happen. As for VAR's servicing Compaq, equipment, they do get parts next day, but they don't get PAID for more then 2 months after the service incident. I'm speaking of VARs that offer the full gambit of Network Integration services for their clients, not box pushers who will gladly sell Compaq clones if it will generate more interest than their white boxes currently do. You may buy in bulk from a box pusher, but when your Networks being built, or in need of serious troubleshooting, if you don't have a good Network Integration VAR, you might as well take a sick day. Those are the grass roots people that generate Compaq loyalty, not the Box pushers that would just assume switch to MacIntosh's should they become popular enough and marginable enough to bother. With all due respect, Hewlett Packard treats their VAR's well, they just make if Very tough to be one, that's all. As for IBM, I can't say I've dealt with them, so I'll give you that one. Compaq will make any moron a VAR, as long as he pushes $25K of inventory per quarter. Hell, with those requirements, I should be my own VAR...