RE: It's incredible

OK...I've been listening patiently to this tripe long enough. My turn... > I find it incredible that developers actually try to defend INFORMIX as > if by some mixed up loyalty. Anyone that has developed (or tryed to) a > major application in INFORMIX will tell you that they have been hit by > bug after bug in the dev' sys', not to count the core bugs in the SQL engine. > There was even a serious bug in the 4.0 SE engine that ment NULL values > were not returned properly & required changing the table schemas to NON NULL > The 4.1 release corrected this but did not mention it (keep it under the > carpet boys). I spent weeks trying to correct this, thinking it was my > fault, until I got 4.1 & the problem disappeared. INFORMIX is too far away > from the user base. They have even got rid of most of there distributers. It > would be nice if INFORMIX would at least list their products shortcomings > or tell their customers of any serious known bugs. They dont do this & I > can not forgive them for it. The amazing OUTER JOIN bug is so serious > that I can't believe people just take it in their stride. Someone said - > it is core code & probably will never be fixed - b-locks - we pay a lot > of money for SQl - fix it. I'm sorry but I have no simpathy INFORMIX > shpuld sort out MAJOR problems like this !!!! I have wriiten 200,000 lines > of INFORMIX code & half (estimate) of my time has been spent getting > around INFORMIX 4GL & SQL bugs. > Anyone had similar experience. My only comment to this is...name me ONE PRODUCT (DATABASE OR OTHERWISE) THAT DOESN'T HAVE BUGS!!! I defy ANYONE to write any application (using ANY PRODUCT) that won't have a bug in it. If YOU can't write bug-free code, why in heaven's name would you EVER expect anyone else to do it??? I'm not saying product x is better than product y. I just find it "incredible" that anyone uses this as an argument to trash a product. Yes, it's got bugs. And the sun will rise in the east tomorrow. Now, can we Puh-lease get back to our regularly scheduled programming? This is, after all, a forum for questions and answers. If you want to sling mud, go behind the barn. Most of us have real work to do. - Cg -- Corinne Gregory, Senior Consultant ASIX, Inc. 777 108th Ave. NE, Suite 1830, Bellevue WA 98004-5118 corinne.gregory@asix.com