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But pressure can be applied to vendors. For instance, you tell the vendor that your entire site upgrade is contingent on having access to betas, previews, or s
by makecheck 17y ago
But pressure can be applied to vendors.
For instance, you tell the vendor that your entire site upgrade is contingent on having access to betas, previews, or some limited number of licenses for X number of months so that you may port and test your internal applications. This is hardly an uncommon problem when upgrading, and it's a good bet for a software vendor to allow small samples for a short period in order to enable larger purchases.
It also doesn't hurt to remind vendors of what you could be doing instead of putting up with them. Tell Microsoft you'll virtualize all of Windows on Mac OS X. Tell them you've been impressed lately by OpenOffice 3. It doesn't even matter if you have a real intention to switch, they just have to believe that you will.
- hvs 17y agoI don't think you've ever dealt with Microsoft before. You can do some of the usual negotiating, but there is no strong-arming them. They have pretty fixed pricing models and are only willing to work with you to a point. Other software vendors, sure, they'll do almost anything to make a sale, but Microsoft is in a whole different universe of software distribution.