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Creative Pressure-IT buyers are asking for and getting the technology they need from vendors at little, or even no, up-front cost

Howard Andrews wasn’t about to take a $40,000 crapshoot.

As executive VP at Blue Hill Data Services Inc., a mainframe outsourcing and hosting company, he wanted to acquire a virtual tape system to improve the company’s data-storage technology but didn’t want Blue Hill to front the full cost of a new system that might not work. "I can always get a 30-day trial period for software, but 30 days isn’t enough time for this technology," Andrews says.

By Eric Chabrow, InformationWeek

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