----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeroen Massar" <jer...@unfix.org> > To: "Franck Martin" <fra...@genius.com> > Cc: "George Bonser" <gbon...@seven.com>, "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011 1:41:45 PM > Subject: Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it! > On 2011-03-01 22:16, Franck Martin wrote: > > Don't forget there is no commission for the salesperson to enable > > IPv6 for you, so definitively they are not interested and you asking > > them to deal with the issue, will just lower their pay at the end of > > the month because they could not use this valuable time to find > > customers with commissions... > > And that, hits the hammer right on the nail... > > Or to put it better: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUYdi43qXHc > > It always just depends on whose pocket it is, in the above example the > blocker is the sales droid whose pockets won't get any deeper at the > moment, in a lot of other cases it is the management types who don't > get > a direct benefit from it. > > And actually, who can blame them? Be sure to know that when time runs > out though that they will come screaming at the techies, but then > again, > those types generally don't get the bonusses for that then to save the > ass of the above types... >
The board to the managers/sales people: "Please explain us again why we can't have more customers?"