Re: upgrade

Nils Myklebust (Nils.Myklebust@idg.no) wrote: : First it isn't bad. : Second if you have a problem with a support contract on a product like : the Informix OnLine engines you will have problems with every product : in this category. The O-Thing also? Different experiences on this side. : Do you expect this kind of product to be totaly bug free? Not totally, but to an extent where you do not have to FEAR a new release. : You shurly can't have any operating system on your computer. You would : hit bugs. Sure we do. Praise the good old times, where everything came from one vendor, who was responsible for his product in every respect. Nowadays the customer/integrator is the fool, cause the DB/OS/...-people can lay back and point the finger to the bad guys, "ask them, it must be their product". It's the dark side of C/S-development, and the Force isn't with me. : Even if you hit no bug (we have no significant problems even with a : version known to have several of them) do you expect everything to run : so smoothly at all times that you will never need any kind of support? Tell this MY customer, who wants only to run his business and not paying an expensive consultant (me) working fulltime to keep his installation stable. The customer beats me, and I cannot beat noone :`( Bye, Patrick -- Patrick Preuss http://home.t-online.de/home/patrick.preuss ppr@deckard.hb.north.de And those who love their several arts exhaust themselves in working at them, unwashed and without food. Marcus Aurelius