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&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9659314" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: the one about SI Compensation</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cameronreilly/archive/2004/02/13/72123.aspx#73687</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2004 05:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:73687</guid><dc:creator>CD</dc:creator><description>Another observed practice is the one of &amp;quot;recommending&amp;quot; the product from vendor A against B when the SI has 10+ consultants &amp;quot;on the bench&amp;quot; trained on vendor's A product...examples in Australia include...large insurance company, etc &lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=73687" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: the one about SI Compensation</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cameronreilly/archive/2004/02/13/72123.aspx#72213</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:34:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:72213</guid><dc:creator>Agent Smith</dc:creator><description>In a previous life (before I was a CIO), I used to work in the vendor market doing pre-sales and implementation of ERP solutions .... Cameron, you are right; it was amazing how often the sales guys would recommend hardware platforms on the basis of who paid the largest finders fee.  Of course what we then needed was to find a convenient benchmark which proved that the recommended Fred Nerk brand server had the goods .... of course every single hardware vendor had a suitable benchmark putting them at the top.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On one occasion we did an actual performance test for a prospect on 2 different vendor platforms using their data and volumes .... interesting result for the sales guy :-o&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Remember MIPS as a measure of performance?  We implementation guys used to refer to it as Misleading Information for Promoting Sales&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=72213" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: the one about SI Compensation</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cameronreilly/archive/2004/02/13/72123.aspx#72143</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:72143</guid><dc:creator>Darrell</dc:creator><description>The SI kickback is equivalent to a loaded mutual fund.  The load has nothing to do with the mutual fund firm, it goes directly to the seller.  At least that is explicit, which is what happens when the US federal govt gets involved.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But I have to wonder, if a seller is getting a kickback, how objective is he going to be?  Either he is going for the money, or he is extremely ethical, and there aren't too many of the latter!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=72143" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>