{"id":6,"date":"2005-05-22T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/2005\/05\/22\/vendor-speak\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T21:14:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T01:14:35","slug":"vendor-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/vendor-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vendor<\/a>According to CIO Magazine article (CIOInsight, May, 2005, p. 20) by David Weindenfled, counsel for McDonald’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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They say<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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They mean<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“usual and customary”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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“Whatever the vendor has been getting away with”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“commercially reasonable”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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“Whatever the vendor considers reasonable”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“for internal business use only”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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“software may not necessarily be used by your business partners or companies that you merge with or acquire”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“the current or then in effect”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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“vendor can change the fees and service levels whenever it wants”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“will perform in accordance with the published specifications”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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“product performs according to the vendor’s technical specifications, but not your company’s business needs”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During contract negotiations, what vendors say is usually different than what they mean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1926],"tags":[3281,219,2921,2073,218],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-management","tag-3281","tag-contract","tag-negotiation","tag-project-management-2","tag-vendors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118426,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/118426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}