Re: Buying into trouble

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:26:57 GMT
Message-ID: <3b431d56.4475619@news-server>

On 3 Jul 2001 14:49:20 GMT, CSC <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote:

>Oracle's hard sell illustrates industrywide problems

Precisely.

>
>It is a scene repeated countless times in the corporate jungle: A company
>endures months of sales pitches, pays millions of dollars for new
>software, discovers massive problems, and spends far more to fix the
>product than the original cost of buying it.
>

Or else they do what SAP users do: re-engineer their processes to match the way the software works. Because it's just plain suicidal to customize the s/w...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:26:57 CDT