tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2264221406867865968.post7015031960573518782..comments2009-09-17T11:04:27.832+10:00Leigh Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08681951093176503130noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2264221406867865968.post-21118213049973969532009-09-17T09:38:31.681+10:002009-09-17T09:38:31.681+10:00Hi Leigh,<br /><br />This was posted on the CORTEX in response to your post:<br /><br />I sympathize as the last platform I built suffered similar frustrations with vendor promises and realities. In my case it wasn&#39;t Microsoft but SAP.<br /><br />To save costs, we opted for unix and 32 bit versions of the software. Then came a time to upgrade to 64 bit and we were spun a line that all we had to do was upgrade x. Once we did this we found that several other bits of the vendors software had to be upgraded (at a cost) as well.<br /><br />We definitely got the impression that full disclosure was missing from the early discussions.<br /><br />In my opinion this strategy by the vendor may earn them dollars in the short term but they sure make me think twice about ever buying their software again.<br /><br />The good news from this bad story was that it gave us the impetuous to look at alternatives to compliment our half 32 half 64 bit platform. I found that there were lots of open source and other vendor products that could fill the gap much more cheaply.<br /><br />Good luck anyway!Innovatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11765142655817482764noreply@blogger.com