Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 02, 2006 08:43 AM
If companies are so unbelievably stupid as to look a gift horse in the mouth because it is free for the asking and sharing, then let them NOT USE IT. Enough will, they will get the competetive advantage and prosper in the long run.
What should be evident by now, 2006, is that corporations fixated on executive payroll and this quarters profits over a longer view will fail. There will come a time where they have outsourced all they can, fired all the developers and innovators they can, thrown all the management and sales at it they can, and still fail, because they "don't get it". Some get into executive postions PRECISELY to rape the company and cause it to fail, because they can loot at will while it is going down. Do we need names mentioned here, are headlines of the past few years enough?
And the other side of the coin is the "great unmentionable", expensive software (and a lot of other goods and products and services in our economy) gets sold from KICKBACKS.
KICKBACKS
You get your company to buy x millions of dollars of stuff from us, here's a nice sack of cash, sub rosa. It is that simple, and it drives business (and government sales) today. If you have someone in charge of purchasing, and they consistently seem to always favor very expensive and fragile or stupid over free and cheap and robust and intelligent, and their decisions just contantly don't seem to make "sense", look at "cents" instead. Take a gander with a critical eye and see if they are living beyond their apparent means, orother such evidence. No one wants to talk about the corruption that is involved in this industry, but everyone knows it goes on.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 02, 2006 08:43 AMWhat should be evident by now, 2006, is that corporations fixated on executive payroll and this quarters profits over a longer view will fail. There will come a time where they have outsourced all they can, fired all the developers and innovators they can, thrown all the management and sales at it they can, and still fail, because they "don't get it". Some get into executive postions PRECISELY to rape the company and cause it to fail, because they can loot at will while it is going down. Do we need names mentioned here, are headlines of the past few years enough?
And the other side of the coin is the "great unmentionable", expensive software (and a lot of other goods and products and services in our economy) gets sold from KICKBACKS.
KICKBACKS
You get your company to buy x millions of dollars of stuff from us, here's a nice sack of cash, sub rosa. It is that simple, and it drives business (and government sales) today. If you have someone in charge of purchasing, and they consistently seem to always favor very expensive and fragile or stupid over free and cheap and robust and intelligent, and their decisions just contantly don't seem to make "sense", look at "cents" instead. Take a gander with a critical eye and see if they are living beyond their apparent means, orother such evidence. No one wants to talk about the corruption that is involved in this industry, but everyone knows it goes on.
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