When good vendors go bad
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The most pervasive problem in running IT is not a specific technology issue at all. Itâs dealing with bad vendors. Even if you have been able to reduce your IT operation down to a pure open source environment on the software side, hardware still must be purchased through commercial channels. In the post-boom IT age, the power has supposedly shifted from vendor to buyer, but IT managers continue to be manipulated by vendors who donât always act in the customerâs best interest. To keep vendors in line, IT managers need to stay on the ball â and punish bad behavior when it occurs by finding new suppliers.
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Complaints that online store is down, among others.
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Sure, many penny stocks are bad. But some of them offer divine returns for the Foolish bargain hunter.
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Here's one China-themed stock that's not doing so well.
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The vendor issued an alert to some customers, telling them to run the flawed application in order to get it fixed.
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You can't survive in a down market doing business as usual.
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Yesterday a funny thing happened with a package on its way from Amazon to me. Today they found it and it went on the truck "out for delivery." I waited and waited, but alas, it never arrived.  And the other package took a similar trip. Dallas to Rockford to Oakland to San Pablo to Lost by Carrier. Oy oy oy.   0 for 2, Amazon. :-(
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I&#8217;ve been looking for a good solution to selling PvP prints, and thanks to my buddy Brian Denham I think I might have. Brian turned me on to a local printer that makes some wonderful 11&#215;17 prints for Brian and today I picked up a batch of my own. I&#8217;ve put up in the store a [...]
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Forklift leads to unplanned downtime Say what you will about cooling issues, disgruntled admins and memory failures. There are times when it's the guys in shipping that cause the most harm to a data center.â¦
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Once you leave the value flock, your performance will likely suffer.
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How to tell good fund managers from bad ones.
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After reading Bruce Mohl's article on how people are having a hard time reaching customer service reps, I have to agree in thinking that some companies are making it harder on purpose so that the consumer will give up (" Maytag guy wouldn't have left you on hold ," Feb. 21 ). I recently spent 45 minutes trying to get ...
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Sometimes, stock buybacks destroy shareholder value.
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Look for opportunities in bad news and you might profit.
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It's good news for users: as CPU and memory chip sales fall, so will prices--to vendors' dismay.
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The best stocks aren't always the most exciting businesses.
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I appreciate when a vendor succeeds at developing a very good application. But what I find more admirable is when a vendor recognizes the deficits in its solutions, makes no excuses, and quickly goes back to the drawing board to make that app excellent.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.