[ppml] IPv6, Vista, and the Popular Press

[Michel Py]

> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Some vendors are better than others at guessing what customers
> will spend money on, and that guessing is an art, not science.
> In particular, asking your customers what they'd like to see is
> notoriously unreliable because they'll ask for lots of things
> that won't actually influence their buying decisions. It takes
> customers threatening to take their business elsewhere for 
> demand to be believed.

Indeed. Customers ask for IPv6 because it is one of the "checklist
items" that they require, not because they want it but because it may
save their {job|career|butt|nameit} in case something goes wrong with
their project and someone higher in the food chain is looking for a
scapegoat in order to save their {job|career|butt|nameit} in case
something goes wrong with their project and someone higher in the food
chain is looking for a scapegoat in order to save...
[stack overflow]

Michel.