Re: Buying into trouble

EB wrote:

> Yep...unfortunately, I've experienced this problem with my previous
> employer. Oracle told them that their current version of Oracle Financials
> can do so and so, and so we bought the software...only to find out that it
> couldn't do so and so...and numerous things were found and continue to be
> found, and the company was forced to spend millions for contractors,
> consultants, and ofcourse Oracle maintenance to get the software to do what
> it should have been able to do in the first place.
>
> "CSC" <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote in message
> news:9hsm1g$7ri6_at_imsp212.netvigator.com...
> > 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.
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-201-6375299-0.html
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://www.attunity.com
> > http://www.asl.com.hk/products/ElectronicStockTradingSolution.html

The software industry is not exactly new. And which part of "buyer beware" did they fail to understand.

If a purchaser does not exercise due diligence, doesn't have an attorney review contracts before signing, and doesn't put sales promises in writing, it is hard to feel they deserve more than a bumper sticker emblazoned with the phrase "PT Barnum Was Right."

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:25:07 CDT