[flossball]

Was going to say the same thing. Horrible stripper lunch sales practices and outright lies about product capabilities. So sad that shit works, but most IT execs are idiots and they knew how to exploit them.

They could get execs to save face and sign off on bumbling through two years delivering non-functional crap that could never do what was promised for millions.

[kwillets]

A colleague once told me an Autonomy rep was sleeping with the client he worked for previously. It was all based on hooking the primary approver and covering up the actual usage of the "product".