The case of the uninterested attitude

Earlier this week, I had a phone coversion with a developer working for a Finnish company. We discussed about a development problem he had, and then our conversation turned to the future of the product he was using.

I started to discuss that a new version is coming later this year, but my customer quickly dismissed the topic by saying, "I'm not interested in what will happen in the future, and besides, I'm not making decisions here [at my company]."

This gentleman's attitude striked me. I understand there are differents kinds of people working in this business, and some are less enthusiastic than others, and just some days we have a bad day. But still.

I've always thought that software developers are people that are often interested in technology itself, and whenever a new tool comes available, they want to fiddle with it, despite the fact that they would need to continue using the old version.

Besides, I couldn't imagine myself as *not* getting interested if there's something new coming my way from a tool that I use every day.