Not everyone feels the need to hedge everything they say with "to me..." and "it really sounds like...".
> It really annoyed me ...
I have no idea what you expect me to do with that information.
> you kept changing your argument
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Are you talking about the joke/not-a-joke thing? I didn't change my argument, I dismissed a shallow objection to an irrelevant detail. My point is that regardless of why the driver quality was included on the page, customers are going to take it the wrong way. Yes, that is my opinion, because apparently that needs to be explicitly stated.
Everyone else who disagreed with me seems to have understood all this so I don't know what the source of your confusion is.
I mean, you're not wrong: buying enterprise software from Oracle or Microsoft or Salesforce is pure pain.
But nobody expects buying niche hardware from a tiny vendor to involve the usual 128 pre/post sale meetings and 256 hours of professional services.
Also, relevant VP buying these things usually do understand the difference between AMD and Nvidia stacks really well. Like, really-really well.
There are certain quirks of this platform's user base that always make me laugh. For example, HNers absolutely love to imply something condescending about the other guy's workplace in order to make their point.
Watch this, I can do it too: Working with managers who make $65,000 (or $10 million) purchases with no more due diligence than reading a marketing page and clicking "Buy it now" is not the flex you think it is.
