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Trying a huge number of users? How without migrating? He could have asked innumerable questions all of which contradicted the description of what he was gettin
by Nomentatus 10y ago
Trying a huge number of users? How without migrating?
He could have asked innumerable questions all of which contradicted the description of what he was getting. He couldn't have known which was the right question. I very rarely query in person before a purchase; I did recently and was given a flatly wrong answer on one question, and then a very positive answer that wasn't logically coherent (strongly suggesting a no, in truth) on a second question. I'm buying anyway, but unless you can phone a corporate head, querying customer support for arcane technical information is rarely a great way to get the right answer, in my experience (sorry to say.) UNLESS you already have a proven fail, of course - which he did.
If it were my program there'd be an error message in there no matter what the upper limit was; I assume others are as competent.
I also don't follow your logic re the high price tag somehow logically entailing a secret limit on the free product - unless you're implying that it's a trap, a way of phishing for phools. (In my country, an illegal bait and switch, actually.) That's something that doesn't work too well when you're peddling to corporations, the pool is small and word gets around too fast.
- dahart 10y ago> I very rarely query in person before a purchase Yeah me too, for things I buy for myself. But it's absolutely the norm for software purchases of $500k. That's what everyone does, it's extremely common practice for any org purchase of software for over 100 people. If the author were actually looking to spend $500k, he definitely would have called first and done a bunch of research. Nobody spends that much without talking to someone. The only reason he didn't have that dialogue is because he thought he'd get the whole thing -- apparently a $500k value -- for free. That's what I mean about the price tag being a signal. It should have signaled a phone call, at the very least.