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To: stox19 who wrote (6423)	5/26/1998 10:21:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 10786

Peter De Jager just wrote an article entitled "Skipping the Vendor Dance" all about how with time running short companies don't have time to dally when picking a Y2K vendor. ALYD seems like the perfect vendor in such circumstances. Here's an excerpt: Once you have had these initial meetings with the vendors, you'll be ready to make a decision. You know what they deliver and if it matches your needs. You will know if it matches their advertising; you will know a bit about their culture and way of doing business; you have met them, shook hands with them and looked them in the eye. You know enough to do business with them. You are ready to sign a contract. You are ready to make a commitment. This is not the normal way to make business decisions and it is certainly not the American way to select a vendor. Business has learned well the lesson "decisions made in haste are repented in leisure." Dancing with vendors, for months at a time, is a time honored tradition. It's the American way! It would take a year to make this decision properly, but businesses have -- for reasons that defy rational, logical explanation -- left themselves less than a year to make the decision and solve the problem. What choice do we have other than the first vendor we think can do the job properly and who we feel we can trust? You could spend more time on this; you could interview them again; you could start out with a pilot project just to make sure; you could do a lot of things to get that extra information necessary to feel more comfortable. That takes time... something in short supply. The January 1st 2000 deadline will arrive on time regardless of how comfortable you are with your vendor. Full story: year2000.com - Jeff