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​Dear Oliver, Dear other OMX and DV users!

Thanks a lot for this important information! It is indeed very worrying news, and I am fully in line with you and Alison. We have a V4 and a Deltavision, and I would not trade either of them for any of the _supposedly_ superior systems that were mentioned in the orignal mail from Cytiva.
A move like this would surely alienate a huge number of core facilities, and for our facility, I don't see us buying any Leica or Molecular Devices instruments instead of a Deltavision system - they are not remotely in the same league (and annoying customers will make this even less likely!). We were just discussing that we would need a new Deltavision, and I can guarantee that the alternative will not come from any Cytiva-based company.

As we already had problems with Cytiva keeping their promised maintenances  - this is not a complaint about their service personnel (who are all fantastic) but about all the company structures in between -  we would be happy to outsource this to a separate and reliable company run by the fantastic service team (Applied Precision 2.0 anyone ;-) -)

I am fully behind putting some pressure on Cytiva and will be happy to work with the community to avoid this impending disaster.

Best wishes,

Kay


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Kay Oliver Schink
Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology
Institute for Cancer research
The Norwegian Radium Hospital
Ullernchausseen 70 - Montebello
0379 Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 22781809
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Website: http://www.ous-research.no/schink/