Re: Maintenence window, gosh how quaint
With any luck, the sales staff who sold the client something as something it is not in the first place.
I can think of at least one such coke-hoover* where I work who has cost the company several weeks unpaid development time in the last year, due to not-entirely-truthful statements made to clients. this has included me having to learn, and make changes to, a product, which in any reasonable universe would have been end-of-lifed at least a decade ago.
*metaphorically speaking, I'm sure none of my colleagues would ever touch the Bolivian Marching Powder, and any behavioural traits that might be associated with such are purely coincidental.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
