Your heart will go on
Being left 'high and dry' would be a result. It's preferable to being dragged down into the abyss. I'm sure that the customers appreciate your rendition of Abide With Me, but it won't stop them scrambling for the lifeboats.
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"The other major bone of contention is the reporting of licensing deals with resellers rather than with end-customers. HP said this was to 'inappropriately accelerate revenue recognition, or worse create revenues where no-end user customer existed at the time of sale'."
Isn't this the first thing any due diligence ought to pick up? It has been historically commonplace with software companies.
A core customer base of mom and pop shops, the very kind that will be consumed by the Cloud;
An unhealthy reliance on big vendors, the very kind that don't allow a margin;
A perpetual pissing contest for market share;
Tablets, not PCs;
Virtualisation, not more servers;
SaaS, not MS;
Looking inwards, not outwards.
What could possibly go wrong?