A clip from an article in the wall-street journal, look for the word CHEAP:
"At Hannaford Bros., a unit of Belgium's Delhaize Group that operates 140 supermarkets in the Northeast, Chief Information Officer Bill Homa says he still has excess capacity on his telecom lines and equipment that he bought or leased between 2000 and 2002. "There's so much capacity you can buy so cheaply," Mr. Homa says of telecom services. He also has hired cheap computer programmers in India to write custom software programs that he says cost less and work better than those he could get in the U.S. Hannaford now has a Web site that allows its thousands of suppliers -- even local farmers -- to schedule deliveries, update prices and discounts, or check on invoices. "Amazing things that make it easier to do business with us," Mr. Homa says of the innovations. "Three years ago, it would have been a dream." --- Dave Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stede Troisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: November 9, 2004 12:55 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [XP] Re: An Employee Owned XP > Enterprise? > > > > > Why don't all customers use open source software > ? > > > The price is unbeatable - even by Indians. > > > > Because they can't get the custom features they > want > > for free. They want custom software, not > pre-packaged > > software. > > On my current contract, we use JBuilder enterprise, > at $5000 CDN per > seat. The client is only now starting to listen to > us that Eclipse > gives us more for free. In terms of support, we > haven't placed a single > support call to Borland in the past year, which > isn't to say that > Jbuilder doesn't have warts. > > There is still a pervasive attitude that you get > what you pay for in > software, which isn't really the case anymore. > > Dave Rooney > Mayford Technologies > http://www.mayford.ca > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
