Other smaller companies act like this, too. Was invited to a steak lunch for automic&#x27;s UC4 (job scheduling) at a fancy dinner far away from anything relevant and at no point, during a two hour talk, was anything of substance actually said. They were trying to sell us UC4 (we already owned it, ffs) yet they didn&#x27;t even show us the damn interface! Everything was fluff upon fluff upon fluff. And the execs - wearing some of the most expensive suits and watches I&#x27;ve ever seen - friggin&#x27; loved it.<p>The best part is that they brought in McDonald&#x27;s UC4 engineer to talk about how good it was. When we asked him how they automated its deployment and where they got their init scripts from, since UC4 didn&#x27;t include any (wtf), his answer was that it was basically his full time job to deploy it by hand, since he didn&#x27;t know how to automate anything. Somehow he turned his lack of skill and McDonald&#x27;s apparent lack of good tech leadership into a positive thing - which the execs also loved. These are the kinds of people making large, absurdly expensive software decisions for multi, multi billion dollar companies.<p>I have nightmares of trying to figure out their database schema. 2-6ish letter German acronyms for table names....<p>Their wiki gives a good impression of their character: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Automic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Automic</a>