Cringely lists the 10 most frequent lies told by IT consultants:
- “This can only be accomplished through a large custom development project.”
- “Of course your data is safe.”
- “We’ll need a day or two for optimization and debugging.”
- “Yes, we’ve done this before. There are several companies using this product (or technology). They really like it.”
- “Server consolidation and virtualization will save you money.”
- “Storage consolidation and virtualization will save you money.”
- “The upgrade (or change) will be seamless and will not affect production.”
- “The upgrade (or change) will be transparent to users.”
- “Yes, we tested this thoroughly before installing it.”
- “If you install Tivoli it will solve all your support problems.”