Ask Slashdot: Do You Trust When a Vendor Tells You To Buy New Parts? 156
Nerval's Lobster writes "Roughly 85 percent of IT managers polled by Forrester said they would hold onto networking infrastructure longer, but vendors retire products prematurely in an effort to force customers to upgrade. In a response that may seem familiar to anyone who's ever been pressured into buying a maintenance contract—either by an enterprise vendor or a major electronics retailer—over 80 percent of the 304 respondents said they don't like the misrepresented cost savings, new fees, and inflexible pricing models—but buy the products anyway. One of the survey's interesting points is that IT decision makers aren't willing to contradict the vendor. The uncertainty seems to come from the fact that the vendor may in fact be right—and a customer who contradicts what they're saying may end up shouldering the blame if the equipment goes south. It's the 'you never got fired for buying IBM' argument, applied to the networking space. The problem, of course, is that the vendor often works for its own agenda. Do you upgrade when the vendor (or reseller) suggests you do so? Or do you stick to your own way of doing things?"
Yes, if its a video card ... (Score:2, Funny)
Do You Trust When a Vendor Tells You To Buy New Parts?
Yes, if its a video card. Buying a low end video card (US$120-140) every two or three years seems to improve the end user experience nicely, **iff** we are talking about a system used for gaming.
On second thought I guess I am not really trusting the vendor since they are telling me to buy the US$500 video card.
Fine, fine... (Score:2, Funny)