Re: Buying into trouble

Hmmm ignorance isn't bliss is it? Don't trust a sales rep to know in depth product details... they may have seen a financials install do everything they said it would. Financials is a major undertaking every time... expect to spend a year with setup and a ton of money on the consultants.+

Jim Kennedy wrote:

> What is the difference between a used car salesman and a software salesman?
> The used car salesman knows he is lying.
>
> How do you know when a software salesman is lying? His lips are moving.
> Jim
> "Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote in message
> news:3B4231D5.1F5B0285_at_attws.com...
> > 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 Sun Jul 29 2001 - 20:28:52 CDT