> > Funny how microsoft sales droids dont like to talk to technical people.
> I should have also said in my other post ("not just Microsoft"), that if your
> company buys the wrong thing and it doesn't work as advertised, standard
> practice is to blame the technical staff for sabotaging it.
> I was in the political hot seat over this once. The company made a really
> stupid purchasing decision, and the product absolutely would not work as
> promised. Two people before me had tried to make it work, and failed, and
> were being accused of not wanting it to work. When the hot potato fell into
> my lap, I followed the vendor's instructions and also discovered that it
> would not work as promised. Not being one to play the fall guy, I ran a
> suite of systematic tests and plotted the results vs. parameter settings.
> When I plotted the a graph I got a sawtooth pattern that strongly suggested
> that some integer variable was wrapping around because it did not have enough
> bits. That was enough to convince my boss to demand a conference call with
> the product's maintainer. He was *really* annoyed to be bothered by a
> customer, and let slip that the system was experimental and was never
> intended to be used as the salesman had promised.
Which, of course, is grounds for a fraud suit.
Quote:> The fallout? None at all. Corporations are accustomed to letting lying
> salesmen make their decisions for them, and then ordering IT to "make it
> work".
> Bobby Bryant
> Austin, Texas
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