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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Gary Britt
date: 2007-03-28 15:06:28
subject: Re: Server Virtualization Anyone?

From: Gary Britt 

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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