You're In The Wrong Business If You're Upset That Your Supplier ...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 02/22/2008 - 06:20

Saul Hansell at the NY Times has an interesting blog post about how various value added resellers (VARs) of Postini's anti-spam email solutions are upset at Postini's new parent company, Google, for drastically cutting the prices on Postini's offerings .

Basically, they're upset that it's much more difficult for them to make a profit, and also because Google can now more efficiently service smaller customers, who Postini used to ignore, leaving them to the VARs.

So, instead, these VARs...

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