>IMVHO... the software vendors (most of them) have not embraced SCP for the >simple reason that they can get more of your money the old fashioned way. >That's all I have to say on this subject.
I've had success with vendors: 1. SAS Institute -- we were one of the few shops that didn't have the product. I stated, sub-capacity, or no placement. 2. MEGASOLVE -- or whatever its new name is. They refused and we went to VANGUARD. 3. SYSB -- we were hard nosed, and we won. You have to be resolved to be willing to drop the product. We were. Low revenue is better than no revenue, as far as a vendor is concerned. At a shop I worked at, even earlier, we managed to reduce the MICS licence to a single image and a single site, even though we were managing two sites and 7 processors. If you are willing to step off the cliff, the vendor isn't always. Nobody has called our bluff, yet. But, vendor politics is always fun, isn't it? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
