Sales Guy: It’s got super high performance. It’s not built on an open source Apache system or anything like that.
Me: That’s a strange pitch to a person like me. So I’ll bet my Apache system is faster, and if something is broken will be fixed overnight by any one of a few hundred people.
Sales Guy: We have a fast turnaround and our patent pending system… blah blah.
Me: Patent doesn’t equal better. Why don’t we just put my stock Apache based system next to your system and see how they do.
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A few days later
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Me: So your system only works with Windows XP clients. No Vista? No Linux? No Macs? And it’s 50% slower than my out of the box open source solution.
Sales Guy: Uhhh. Our system does work with Vista and Macs if you disable some of their security features.
Me: Please go away.