LOL,
Oh don't even get me started about the subscription software.
"seemed like every year (a slight exaggeration),"
But not much of an exaggeration.
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"BTBeilke" wrote in message
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> You know, for a software company, Autodesk sure seems to have a lot of
> problems with IT rollouts. At my previous company, in addition to my
> engineering duties, I was the nationwide CAD Systems Administrator. We
were
> a premier account with a few hundred licenses scattered across the nation.
> Our subscription contract renewed every February. It seemed like every
year
> (a slight exaggeration), they installed some new software to "improve" the
> management of the subscription contracts. And each time, all I heard was
we
> can't do this or we can't do that because of the new implementation. One
> year, they had to bust our single contract up into about 14 separated
> contracts because the "improved" system couldn't handle more than one site
> per contract. Not to mention that during the conversion, our contract
> seemed to get all messed up. It just doesn't instill much confidence in a
> guy. Doesn't anyone use test labs and pilot implementations before they
go
> into production anymore?
>
> Sorry for the rant,
>
> Blane
>
>