Re: A good indication of the market ...
"Such purchase decisions would not be made without Engineering/Lead Developers/Technical Architects etc having the reviewed requirements and available alternatives."
So... you seriously believe companies don't make massively stupid purchase decisions with no input from the technical side of the business?
Last week I was at a company-wide meeting where it was casually mentioned that our customer services team would be moving to a new CRM system. Ink was on paper, but no member of the IT department from the top down had been told it was happening, literally the first we'd heard of it.
When you have the right mix of the wrong people, it happens all the time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
