From: Richard B. 

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:58:54 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>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...

Why do I see a Dilbert cartoon here?

I think 30 days is reasonable.  Folks usually don't just get an eval and
immediately start using it, they want to test it thoroughly to see if it
will work in their environment in a certain set of circumstances.

A week is laughable!  Those marketing weasels are all about togas anyway.

- Richard

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