{"id":85435,"date":"1999-12-31T00:12:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/recovery-after-drunken-party-secures-sbs-deal-for-acer\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:12:00","slug":"recovery-after-drunken-party-secures-sbs-deal-for-acer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/recovery-after-drunken-party-secures-sbs-deal-for-acer\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery After Drunken Party Secures SBS Deal For Acer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Broadcasting Service SBS has signed a deal with Acer reseller Leading Solutions to fulfil its pc requirements for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will see more than 800 Acer desktops, notebooks and LCD monitors installed at the SBS and will incorporate design, project management, installation, testing, support and after-sales services.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Alex Surplice, Director, Operations and Resources for SBS Technology and Distribution (T &amp; D) said, &#8220;As a media organisation, SBS demands flexible configurations, ease of use and above all reliability. With immovable deadlines every day, our computer equipment has to work and work well. Acer has committed to deliver us the flexibility, security and reliability demanded, together with quality local support.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The deal wasn&#8217;t all prefaced on promises and sales materials though, Greg Koen, Manager, Information Systems Group within T &amp; D at SBS, had prior experience that convinced him of the quality Acer could deliver says the company.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acer&#8217;s products are not only well built, but often ahead of their time. We were an Acer customer in the past, and until recently, I still had an old 486 unit operating as an intranet server,&#8221; said Koen. &#8220;I inherited it and modified the unit with Slackware Linux and plenty of extra RAM and it performed dutifully for over ten years!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even more amazingly, Koen inherited the unit after it was substantially damaged. &#8220;Acer builds durable computers, proven by the fact that the Acer unit only received minor damage after a new year&#8217;s accident, when a &#8216;well refreshed&#8217; individual crashed through a skylight at SBS directly onto the computer. 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