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The dominant cost here is switching cost. Data has mass-like characteristics. It exhibits inertia, momentum and gravity. To move data from one to another requi

The dominant cost here is switching cost. Data has mass-like characteristics. It exhibits inertia, momentum and gravity. To move data from one to another requires three terms: you need to be moving at least as fast as the production rate, you need to be accelerating at least fast as the production rate is and then, on top of those, you need additional movement speed to be able to move the original accumulation. For the market to be perfectly competitive in an economic sense, switching costs would have to be zero. Hence my original smartarsery. I think it's more likely that they'll call their lawyers and haggle for a few bucks off the next renewal.

harry8 7y ago
You wanted service, you got a punch in the face. So negotiate a small discount while leaving yourself wide open for being sued? Crazy! These guys are a huge risk of not being around in a year. That's some kind of market inefficiency right there. How bad would this service have to be to dump the supplier? It's actually kind of hard to imagine this being worse, don't you think? It's not my area but I'm pretty sure I can design a parallel solution to get away from the vampires relatively quickly. Start collecting current data somewhere else in parallel to the existing. Move all the existing data, take as as long as that takes. Switch of the tap to the legacy vampires when it's done and the new, up-to-date collection has full history. Pay to get it done. Sue your former suppliers for the entire cost on account of them being fundamentally incompetent and dishonest. Dare them to fight it. Tell them just how much you're looking forward to discovery which by necessity will not be confidential. "How famous do you want to be?" Give interviews about how you don't put up with this kind of standover nonsense. Seriously you can't have these idiots as suppliers. You really can't. We can't have them survive in the industry and simultaneously have self-respect, surely. Airlines with planes that crash that aren't their fault go broke. These guys surviving this, just no. They need to die and be condemned to the hell of writing blog posts on medium about what they learned from their total abject and utter failure. Attunity customers who stick with them should be sued for treating their own customers health, safety and wellbeing with contempt. No fortune 100 customer agreed to that risk. A few bucks off the renewal? Just no.
- jacques_chester 7y ago
  I'm not Attunity and I'm not defending them. I'm explaining why some companies will have different preferences from yours (and, to some degree, mine).

harry8 7y ago

You wanted service, you got a punch in the face. So negotiate a small discount while leaving yourself wide open for being sued? Crazy! These guys are a huge risk of not being around in a year. That's some kind of market inefficiency right there. How bad would this service have to be to dump the supplier? It's actually kind of hard to imagine this being worse, don't you think? It's not my area but I'm pretty sure I can design a parallel solution to get away from the vampires relatively quickly. Start collecting current data somewhere else in parallel to the existing. Move all the existing data, take as as long as that takes. Switch of the tap to the legacy vampires when it's done and the new, up-to-date collection has full history. Pay to get it done. Sue your former suppliers for the entire cost on account of them being fundamentally incompetent and dishonest. Dare them to fight it. Tell them just how much you're looking forward to discovery which by necessity will not be confidential. "How famous do you want to be?" Give interviews about how you don't put up with this kind of standover nonsense. Seriously you can't have these idiots as suppliers. You really can't. We can't have them survive in the industry and simultaneously have self-respect, surely. Airlines with planes that crash that aren't their fault go broke. These guys surviving this, just no. They need to die and be condemned to the hell of writing blog posts on medium about what they learned from their total abject and utter failure. Attunity customers who stick with them should be sued for treating their own customers health, safety and wellbeing with contempt. No fortune 100 customer agreed to that risk. A few bucks off the renewal? Just no.

jacques_chester 7y ago
I'm not Attunity and I'm not defending them. I'm explaining why some companies will have different preferences from yours (and, to some degree, mine).