Rage-making, anxiety-inducing tech distributors: An ode

As vendors don't seem all that interested in selling equipment directly, value-added resellers (VARs), managed service providers (MSPs) and the like must buy our gear from distributors before selling it on to our clients. Oh, not all disties are totally awful. There's always one we can point to and say "I love those guys". …

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't an ode a poem

Where as this certainly looks like prose to me

All of them sentences

[frank ly]

Also, an ode is supposed to praise or glorify someone or something.

[Michael Strorm]

Yes, indeed- this sounds like the complete opposite.

And, of course, the opposite of an ode is cath ode.

[Little Mouse]

Estate agents, car showrooms, employment agencies...

Disties may be in a different market, but in general their business is to sell <insert-product-here> at the best price they can get.

Will the businesses adapt? They probably don't care. If they can't shift IT stock any more they'll just shut the shop and move on to selling something else.

[The Godfather]

Boom

Well, well, finally, recognition of where things are heading...