On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:57:34 +0000 Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>>Would be great if all invoices were paid on time. :>Would be great if vendors delivered working keys all the time! Yes :>Would be great if vendors were available 7-24! Yes. :>Neither of the two above have anything to do with timely payments. :>AND, the scenario I proposed, I lived through. :>Without naming names, the product in question only had two vendors and one was a work-alike for another. :>Both vendors have/had M-F/9-5 support. :>Keys failed on a weekend. :>Company works in many time-zones. :>Support didn't. :>Bill was payed. :>Keys failed. :>As I said: "Now what"? Since you recognized the problem in advance, you had the opportunity to request for someone to be on-call during the testing interval. I would find it hard to believe that the unnamed vendor with 9-5 support would have strongly objected for a "one of" weekend support. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
