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"No one deployed an application as large as yours, based on this Software Product"

In a previous post titled: Consultants Typology: The Self-deprecating Consultant , I promised to depict examples of my consultancy, which was exactly the opposite of a Self-deprecating Consultant consultancy.  This post describe a Case Study of that type few decades ago. The title of this post is a quote of the words I said to a CIO. I implied that the product's Scalability is not adequate for thousands of users.  I could say it explicitly as well, however my goal was to perform a consultancy project and get paid for it.  The first step of the consultancy will be dedicated to proving that using the product he thought of is a guaranteed failure.  The second step will be a selection process of an adequate product.  The third step could be helping the customer to deploy the selected product properly. Surprise "No problem, I will be the first to deploy a large application based on this product".  He did no...