Viglen

[_Bat_]

Originally Posted by altecsole

The impression I got from your original post was that you were having a rant against Viglen. What's wrong with that you may ask? Nothing, if it's down the pub with your mates, but this is (hopefully) a respected forum for IT professionals working in education. As such, I felt, the tone of your post was inappropriate. That's just a personal opinion. No doubt others will let me know if I'm wrong?

I don't know... looking at some of the threads in this section of the forum and in the FFS section, I'd say an awful lot of people use that tone when posting about subjects like this. I've seen much worse and much more dangerous for the person who posted it as well.

I'll admit though, it's all too easy for everyone to forget that the rants on here are public and caution needs to be taken before posting any comments on anything like this.

[starscream]

I was thinking the same thing when I was reading the FFS forum. I can understand how making slanderous remarks about companies is bad but I feel that truth and free speech is also important these days as we are told what to do so much by so many. Sometimes you have to tell it how it is.

I bought my laptop from rockdirect.com because they have support forums rockforum.co.uk and you can discuss anything there, you can discuss all your problems and even staff from the company reply to every support thread. You can also see problems people have with their laptops and it can help you decide if you want to buy it or not. I like this open approach and like where the company come from, no problem has not been fixed by them.

I guess I am more used to that sort of free speech truthful environment. I never mean to sound like I have a nasty tone but I do like to tell it how it is and I prefer people to be the same with me so everyone knows where they stand. I also subscribe to car forums where people are working on their car's and regularly post threads when feeling low and they seem like they're ranting but never seen this sort of a reply other than when people admit to racing on main roads. Nothing I said hurt anyone or a big company like Viglen and I don't think anything I can say or do would damage them in any way.

Man I like to go off on one don't I?

[complete_phreak]

not to be confused with stone!

[john]

Originally Posted by starscream

I think it is a company he acquired rather than set up. Xenon I think are another company in their own right but manage the hardware side of Viglen. I can't remember, I was told at the Classlink training years ago all about it, which itself was held at the Xenon HQ in Altrincham.

Ok anyone who's watched The Apprentice this evening will have had this confirmed to them, they are one of his firms and the big cahuna at Viglen was part of the interview panel for Sir Alans apprentices.

[witch]

Just to put in my two pennorth
I don't think starscream was over the top at all -he detailed what had happened calmly and fairly.
After all the Sophos flak, I thought the result was that if you say something bad about a company, it is not libel if you can justify what you say, and he did.
Obviously he wasn't happy but other than that there was no 'tone' to his statements
And, as he said SEVERAL TIMES, this is a BAD EXPERIENCE forum!

[laserblazer]

Viglen was set up by a guy called Vig Boyd in the 80s. I used to work for Western Digital and sold them drives and controllers. Vig was a great guy and put a lot of effort into making Viglen computers worthy competition for IBM and Compaq. That's why a lot of Universities got tied in. Sadly, when Vig sold out to Amstrad the product quality went right down. Five years ago, I would only by Viglen, now I wouldn't touch them. Shame really.

Vig now runs this company. http://www.vignet.net/ Does that logo look familiar.

[john]

Originally Posted by laserblazer

Vig now runs this company. http://www.vignet.net/ Does that logo look familiar.

LOL yes very similar logo, why ain't Sir Alan asked for moneyz though hehe. Its very different industry that though to IT, from PCs to UPVC Windows

[PEO]

I heard that some chairman of some rubbish football team down south owns viglen

UP the Boro

[Elky]

Up the Boro? Haha. Hows Gary O'Neill getting on for you?

Play up Pompey

Im surrounded by Viglens, need some Dells or Sony

[torledo]

Originally Posted by laserblazer

Viglen was set up by a guy called Vig Boyd in the 80s. I used to work for Western Digital and sold them drives and controllers. Vig was a great guy and put a lot of effort into making Viglen computers worthy competition for IBM and Compaq. That's why a lot of Universities got tied in. Sadly, when Vig sold out to Amstrad the product quality went right down. Five years ago, I would only by Viglen, now I wouldn't touch them. Shame really.

Vig now runs this company. http://www.vignet.net/ Does that logo look familiar.

Viglen used to make great desktop PC's...

About 7 or 8 years ago when i was at uni we had a site full of 700 mhz Pentium 3's and they were lightning and quie attractive to look at.

I think those very PC's could still do a great job today, that was pre-amstrad presumably.

Today Viglen seem to have a successful storage division and poviding services and IT consultancy to public sector and education seems to be an area where they could excel at rather than as an innovative PC builder