On May 15, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Brian Westerman wrote:
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There will always be sites that absolutely MUST have the high cost,
platinum
level "commercially supported" software, even if it performs no
better, (and
sometimes worse) than the free and very low cost counterparts, but
most of
that is a result of FUD.
But that's just my $.02, and I'm sure a lot of people may
disagree. I just
wanted to point out that a lot of money is "wasted" on products
that are
unnecessary, for a lot of reasons, and that sites need to stay on
top of
what they are paying for.
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Brian:
But what about a vendor who does charge major $$ and has lousy
service? I know specifically of one that they closed the phone lines
at 5PM. You cannot reach them until the next day.
Now granted they are reasonably new to the MF world(5 or so years)
they also charge per cpu serial number. But still paying major $$ (50K
+) for their reasonably simple product you would expect first class
support, but you get the PC world support.
Ed
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