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Re: Buying into trouble

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:36:55 +0200
Message-ID: <9jdvoo$lj9$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>

"CSC" <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote

> Oracle's hard sell illustrates industrywide problems
>
> 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.

So? Nothing new. Any techie that ever had the misfortune to work with pre-sales and marketing, can attest to the fact that the majority of sales people are nothing but something that was borned an asshole.. and then grew bigger.

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Billy
Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 02:36:55 CDT

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