On 19/08/2011 02:21 PM, Mike the Elder wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
> ....
>> Suppose the local government wants to build a bridge across a large


>> go with the last one?? WTF?! No! Nobody *ever* does this!
>

> cases where software companies are ready, willing and eager to charge many, many
> times the amount that actually needs to be spent in order to achieve what the
> customer really needs.

Yeah, there is that.










(I still remember going into a suit shop. They have multiple racks of 
identical black suits. I pick up one that looks roughly my size. "Ah 
yes, an excellent choice, sir" the man says. I wonder, is there a suit I 
could have picked up that was /not/ an excellent choice?)


plate was plain white with a yellow circle in the centre. It was in a 
Royal Doulton shop. ASDA can probably sell you a nearly identical one 


> The REAL problem, as I see it, is the pig-headed unwillingness of so many
> corporate executives to employ people who actually KNOW whether $4,000.00
> software or $4,000,000.00 software is needed and allow them to make the purchase
> decisions.

...and again we're back to "people who think they are experts but aren't"...

> I do know even more about how to solve this problem permanently, but I would

> detailing this solution could be YOURS in only six months for a mere
> $285,000.00.*
>
> Best Regards,
> Mike C.
> Chief Supervising Consultant
> Elder Pontification Group
> (D.B.A. Atlantian Snake Oil Distributors)
>


Tempting, but...

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