{"id":101,"date":"2005-07-08T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2005-07-08T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T14:52:00","slug":"101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2005\/07\/08\/101\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:YK6uO5e1fuIJ:oseb79.free.fr\/images\/Serie,%2520cartoon\/looney%2520tunes%252010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.federalobserver.com\/content_images\/burning_money_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);\"><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\"> NetApp <\/span>customer outraged by bizare  Software  support quote from <span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">NetApp<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">On Thursday , we received a quote by fax from a NetApp F760 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">customer who received a quote for over $74,000.00 for his ongong software subscription. He called us to discuss this hilarious quote. He was laughing , but he was astonished and quite aggrevated also.<\/span> How could they charge this much for a subscription for a software package? If I did not see the Quote with my own eyes I would not believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">NetApp<\/span> needs to make money on the backend because they have been giving too much away to gain maket share <\/span><span class=\"mainarttxt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/technology\/enterprisetech\/2005\/06\/02\/cz_qh_0602pillar.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dave Hitz, cofounder and head of engineering at NetApp<\/span>. <\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/technology\/enterprisetech\/2005\/06\/02\/cz_qh_0602pillar.html\"><span class=\"mainarttxt\">&#8220;We have a single software system, and we can cut our prices to gain market share,&#8221; he says.   <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know of any customer that likes to be bullied by their vendor,  and this latest pricing tactic seems to be a way for <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">NetApp<\/span> to either force customers to upgrade their perfectly good storage systems or to pad <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">NetApp&#8217;s profits<\/span>. The uninteded consequence of this pricing structure will be to drive customers away from <span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;\">NetApp<\/span> products, because the ROI of their products just skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);\">If you are looking for a way to keep your NetApp costs under control please keep Zerowait in mind. Our satisfied family of customers continues to grow because Zerowait provides an affordable alternative to NetApp&#8217;s outrageous service, support and upgrade pricing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-112074888636469663?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetApp customer outraged by bizare Software support quote from NetApp! On Thursday , we received a quote by fax from a NetApp F760 customer who received a quote for over $74,000.00 for his ongong software subscription. 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