Comments on: Good Ole Days http://mcwresearch.com/archives/316 Things I think I've thought about Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:52:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://mcwresearch.com/archives/316/comment-page-1#comment-333 Michael Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:05:00 +0000 http://mcwresearch.com/archives/316#comment-333 Ross Brown of eEye digital said it best in <a href=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/rossbrown42/tb/~3/28921054/how_to_compete_.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" rel="nofollow">this post</a>. He was talking about how to compete with Microsoft and was talking about how Microsoft treats channel partners like customers, which vendors <i>serve</i>. They aren\'t called \"service providers\" for nothing!! Like I said in the post on the next day; our relationships with vendors are our own making and therefore its our fault when the relationship goes south. Unfortunately I\'m not upper management. I\'m just a schmuck curmudgeon who loves to complain. =) Ross Brown of eEye digital said it best in this post. He was talking about how to compete with Microsoft and was talking about how Microsoft treats channel partners like customers, which vendors serve.

They aren\’t called \”service providers\” for nothing!!

Like I said in the post on the next day; our relationships with vendors are our own making and therefore its our fault when the relationship goes south. Unfortunately I\’m not upper management. I\’m just a schmuck curmudgeon who loves to complain. =)

]]> By: iain http://mcwresearch.com/archives/316/comment-page-1#comment-332 iain Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:54:32 +0000 http://mcwresearch.com/archives/316#comment-332 We use a vendor to host our servers in two data centers and our level 1 call center. The on-site tech at the data centers are absolute morons and because of some data I had deleted we found that they hadn't been backing up our servers for 4+ months. And we pay them ungodly amounts of money for the privilege of putting our servers in their rackspace. We use a vendor to host our servers in two data centers and our level 1 call center. The on-site tech at the data centers are absolute morons and because of some data I had deleted we found that they hadn’t been backing up our servers for 4+ months. And we pay them ungodly amounts of money for the privilege of putting our servers in their rackspace.

]]> By: mcwresearch.com » Customer-Vendor relationships http://mcwresearch.com/archives/316/comment-page-1#comment-331 mcwresearch.com » Customer-Vendor relationships Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:01:08 +0000 http://mcwresearch.com/archives/316#comment-331 [...] Yesterday I blogged about an unhealthy relationship our company has with a service provider. Overnight that relationship took a turn for the worse. [...] [...] Yesterday I blogged about an unhealthy relationship our company has with a service provider. Overnight that relationship took a turn for the worse. [...]

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