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by Michael Kassner

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According to attorney Mark Grossman, most IT contracts are "atrocious, poorly written and short on details." In an article in ComputerWorld by Thomas Hoffman

http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/consulting/story/0,10801,95396,00.html

the legal advisor says that writing ineffective contracts is a common practice of technology buyers because they fail to ensure system performance promises from vendors. Do you specify in your contracts any kind of performance assurance clauses?

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by Mark W. Kaelin

A survey of both European and U. S. enterprises rated the most trusted security service vendors almost identically. Topping the list were Symantec, Cisco, IBM, and VeriSign.

[b]Which security service vendors do you trust?[/b]

by lioninoil

... we don't trust vendors. Their job is similar to that of a car dealer: to sell us something that they did not design or develop.

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