From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:460b225b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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...
>
> Tell them software is like crack, you have to give them enough time to get
> addicted to it. Go for 3 months.

I'm not there anymore, I'm running my own shop now. I have no time limit in
my evals - and I had to use pretty strong words to get my sales guy to live
with that. He still whines about it every now and then...


Antti Kurenniemi

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