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Ben Galbraith points to an interesting Wall Street Journal story on a new software co-op, and asks the question: "How long will corporate America put up with the high prices and low quality of the software industry? A handful of major corporations have "enough is enough" and have banded together to form their own "software co-op". What impact will this have on our industry?". That leads to my own question - how long will corporations continue to listen to the utter morons who give software recommendations as if they were electing a prom queen? I mean seriously, this data isn't new. If corporations want better results, they have to widen their view and look beyond the supposed mainstream....