alt Hacker NewsIt doesn't matter if it's a joke. The non-technical manager or VP making this purchase will not understand it and will expect poor treatment from this vendor, an expectation that will be reinforced by numerous other things on this page. There is no reason to include it at all.
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It seems that you work a lot with managers who have no clue what they are buying and why.
I mean, you're not wrong: buying enterprise software from Oracle or Microsoft or Salesforce is pure pain.
But nobody expects buying niche hardware from a tiny vendor to involve the usual 128 pre/post sale meetings and 256 hours of professional services.
Also, relevant VP buying these things usually do understand the difference between AMD and Nvidia stacks really well. Like, really-really well.
It doesn’t read as if they actually care about broad appeal, given their plain refusal to accommodate traditional procurement processes