I do not want to place all the blame on these vendors who wants to stand in isolation from the rest and doesn't want others in their sand box, because they think that they can be sole provider of every whim and desire to all lemmings(oops! I mean customers) out there.
Yes, WE ARE LEMMINGS.
- We buy a new widget, that will probably not work for what we want(just read all the fine print).
- We allow the vendor to tell us what we "need".
- Vendor will hide behind a lot of procedures and level 1 "support" staff.
- Vendor has no intention of fixing anything that was just released, they need you to "upgrade".
- We gather in little groups and attempt fixes that more than likely will not work for every one.
- We keep coming back or better said "jump off the cliff".
Ohh YES, WE ARE LEMMINGS!!!!