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From: Eric.Bohlman@p1.f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org (Eric Bohlman)
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Subject: Re: Why Things Are The Way They ARe
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:24:35 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DT> agencies.  At present I am working through a situation where the
 DT> counselor is more interested in buying everything at one place
 DT> regardless of price than buying individual items from different places
 DT> at cheaper prices.  I have tried to show how the agency could save over

I've seen that one too.  Often they want to buy both the software and the
hardware from the same vendor (that is, the better ones do; the worse ones
don't seem to realize that you need to get software as well).  Another common
policy is to pay for maintenance contracts at the time of purchase, but not
post-purchase repairs.  I can see arguments on both sides of this issue, but
the very least an agency could do would be to keep track of how often
particular items or classes of items need repair and make the decision based
on the item's track record.

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