In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>, on
02/05/2010
at 09:07 AM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:
>We had a software vendor who swore on the <insert religious book of
>choice>
ObAmbroseBierce He swore that all other religions were gammon, and wore
out his knees in the worship of Mammon. Vendor promises don't mean a
thing[1] unless they're in the contract and backed up by penalty clauses.
[1] Yeah, I know about the Catamore case, but that was an aberration.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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