Take this with the grain of salt that I do not work for APC, but for a sister company. The word that I have heard is that they are in no rush to discontinue any of the product line. In fact rumor is that APC was very happy to have the MGE products available to them for sale to customers. As a side note I have several MGE UPS in service and have had zero problem getting support and maintenance from APC for them. RS
See, now thats what I like to hear after an acquisition like this. You expect a certain redundancy but to have it said that, "we're not merely interested in the underlying technology, we like the products just the say they are and have no plans to change them (except maybe to standardize the management software interface," or something along those lines is a darned good thing. 'cause lemme tell ya, I like the MGE systems I have and am very glad to hear that APC thinks MGE gear is just ducky. -Wayne On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:51:11PM -0500, ryan.slater@tac.com wrote:
Take this with the grain of salt that I do not work for APC, but for a sister company. The word that I have heard is that they are in no rush to discontinue any of the product line. In fact rumor is that APC was very happy to have the MGE products available to them for sale to customers. As a side note I have several MGE UPS in service and have had zero problem getting support and maintenance from APC for them.
RS
--- Wayne Bouchard web@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
ryan.slater@tac.com wrote:
Take this with the grain of salt that I do not work for APC, but for a sister company. The word that I have heard is that they are in no rush to discontinue any of the product line. In fact rumor is that APC was very happy to have the MGE products available to them for sale to customers. As a side note I have several MGE UPS in service and have had zero problem getting support and maintenance from APC for them.
Interesting. The reason I ask is that I'm kind of attracted to the MGE Galaxy and its paralleling N+1 capability. I had a bad experience with a frame shorting out a few years ago after it went into bypass but didn't shut off the inverter output; hilarity ensued. It seems like the Galaxy and Smart VT overlap, although the Galaxy has better specs on paper. I was also recommended a Symmetra PX 80kW frame. I asked my rep and they were kind of ambiguous about the MGE line, hence my redirect of the question here. ~Seth
participants (3)
-
ryan.slater＠tac.com -
Seth Mattinen -
Wayne E. Bouchard