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to: Gary Britt
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2007-03-29 06:25:20
subject: Re: Server Virtualization Anyone?

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

, yeppers. Luckily, I'm not there anymore, I've got my on software
business now (almost two years) - my evaluation version has no time limit at all!


Antti Kurenniemi

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:460abcb5{at}w3.nls.net...
> Just wait till next week when the accountants ask you to write your own
> version of WGA deactivation features and add a hardware dongle to the
> thing!!!  The week after that, another new feature "Enhanced Reduced
> Functionality Mode" !!!
>
> 
>
> Gary
>
> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>> "Richard B."  wrote in message
>> news:89el039lmk32eu0mmtou5gj6m2r6d05jd1{at}4ax.com...
>>>> The eval is a timebombed version, 14-days from today, that doesn't
>>>> give me much time for an evaluation. :(  We'll see...
>>> Yes, I got a sales call and told them to check back later.  I don't
>>> even have a machine to properly test it on, and 14 days isn't enough
>>> time.
>>
>> I've been on the developer side of an argument over how long is a
>> suitable evaluation period. The marketoids were set on one week on a
>> business-wide development product that could barely even be installed in
>> a week, and no matter how hard I tried to explain they just couldn't
>> understand that making the evaluation period longer would not cost us
>> anything, but it could eventually lead to a few more sales. Those are
>> truly surreal discussions sometimes...
>>
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>

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