ATOS does use existing support provided by gold / premier support from Dell. The only money ATOS makes off of this type of support is for the normal facilitation of support, there is no extra charge for ATOS to facilitate this.
I say the above only to correct and give facts. I didn't / don't agree with the move to provide support via ATOS. At the same time, misleading and presenting incorrect information doesn't help bring real issues to light.
ATOS does / did in fact cost considerably more for support scenarios than what was previously in place. Some needed to go, but it was also presented that a certain level of expertise was included with the ATOS service. This is clearly a farce and a misrepresentation of what we were supposed to get.