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Does Your Vendor Issue Gag Orders?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the next-up-charging-protection-fees dept.

Presto Vivace writes to tell us that CIO has an interesting article about customer "gag orders" that some ERP vendors are trying to impose contractually. "The effect: customers will be prevented from working with peers and others in the software company's "ecosystem" to help with technical issues or compare pricing options. 'In addition,' Wang adds, 'the customer now lacks the proper checks and balances in pressuring a vendor to deliver on promised capabilities or address severe security issues, and cannot go to the media as a last resort, if needed.'" What other questionable practices (and potential solutions) have others had to work with?

4 of 210 comments (clear)

  1. fuck the ciO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my ass is on fire you dick face

    1. Re:fuck the ciO by txspaderz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      :rofl:

  2. Re:All we need now is a homeland security tie-in by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Guess you didn't get the memo - Dubya is out of office, and Obama don't roll like that.

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