http://www.itskeptic.org/node/684 Comments for "Software vendors and the bait-and-switch trick" en http://www.itskeptic.org/node/684#comment-3169 <p>I tightened them up <a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/node/696">because of this</a>. You can always register on this site :-D No captchas then.</p> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:52:02 +0000 skeptic comment 3169 at http://www.itskeptic.org http://www.itskeptic.org/node/684#comment-3168 <p>I can't believe there aren't any examples here, this is a huge problem. I've seen so many products turned into shelfware over the years it is not even funny - sometimes our fault, sure - but usually caused by the smoke and mirrors given by the vendor during the dog and pony shows, and when the reality of the program hits it is nowhere near what they said it was. Again, there are two sides to this of course so we share equal blame. I'm not going to name the vendor, but in our RFP for a pharmaceutical software we ask for confirmatin they offerd a Windows version (this was a few years back now) and they responded positively. What we found in reality was that it was a DOS based program that just happened to run in Windows, but of course was not taking advantage of Windows GUI.</p> <p>(Man your captchas are impossible.)</p> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:55:45 +0000 IT Governance Blog comment 3168 at http://www.itskeptic.org