Well, I have just wasted most of the last three months of work at my new job. ( no, I did not lose my job )
I have been working with A vendor to get the company so they are using the more advanced features that are included in the software package, and was the sole reason I was hired.
After getting this project almost completed, the vendor informs us that they have been purchased by their biggest customer. [i](it gets worse)[/i]
They don’t WANT to support anyone but themselves, so they have notified everyone that the existing support contracts are void, and we have 30 days to sign a new one year contract at over 3 times what we had been paying or they would no longer even answer the phone when we call.
If they would have given me ANY warning, I could have moved us to another package move a month ago easily, but now I have three weeks to complete the migration to a new system. Fun fun.
Has anyone else been blind sided by a vendor you have been with for years?
