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Comment Why the premium is needed. (Score 0) 144

I once worked for a company that bought a whole IT operations suite from one of the big-four vendors. There was much fanfare during the life of the project: fancy restaurants, regular hotel ballroom kick-offs/product presentations, IPods given out like candy to rank and file peons, hookers and junkets for junior execs (+ families). (How about flying an exec and his entourage half way around the world for a dog and pony show on the latest products on a chartered yacht?) In the end, the system didn't work. The IT operations suite was replaced by a bunch of temps pinging, looking at df's output, etc. for 24 hours and entering them in spreadsheets. Eventually, the temps were replaced by a bunch of open source projects woven together on PHP. So it is essential for big vendors to incorporate some premium into their products to offset their marketing (and extra marketing) costs.

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