Re: INFORMIX WISH LIST

Billy Wheeler wrote: > > On 15 Jun 97 at 11:35, Tim Schaefer wrote: > > > 2. Shrink-wrap New Era. Charge something similar to other products > > like > > it, say around $99.00 US. Make it available via FTP. Drop the > > run-time licensing fees. > > No, no, no, price it like the competition? Like Dynasty and Forte? > Between $10K and $100K /user? > > I would probably rephrase this as: MAKE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHY NEWERA > IS WORTH THE PRICE!!! If people compare it to Visual Basic or Delphi, > they do not understand its intrinsic worth! BUT NOBODY FROM INFORMIX > EVER STOPS YOU FROM MAKING THE COMPARISON OR TELLS WHY IT'S > DIFFERENT!!!!!! > > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHGHGHGHGHGH!!!!!! Sorry for the screaming. > > Tim, I'll get my wishlist to you RSN! > > -- > Ciao, > Billy > > Nose to the ground and ear to the grindstone in: Kuwait > *55* Degrees Celsius and climbing! Hey, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. New Era walks like an Access, quacks like a Powerbuilder, therefore it should be priced accordingly. But I am probably wrong on this one, not because I want to be, but because New Era is UN-marketed. There's almost no information about it, no promotion of it, and certainly no pricing that is affordable for most developers. So my little wish for it is to have Informix price it so I'll buy it, learn to use it, get excited about it, and then help promote it where I work. But even at that we never saw 4GL promoted worth a damn--no co-op marketing! When are they going to start this? Instead they push their consultants into the market promoting THEM instead of independents, who are more than willing to develop the market. I was told last year by Informix folk down south ( Ft. Lauderdale ) that New Era was primarily a migration product for shops with a big investment in 4GL wanting to move to GUI. If this is the case, then why didn't they involve some of the strongest bigots for 4GL in the marketing campaign? I would have loved to have helped out, but did anybody call me? Did anybody ask me to evaluate New Era? Did anybody email me and tell me to stop poopooing New Era? No on all counts. So I continue to poopoo New Era and Informix for excluding me in the future of their products. Do they have an active web site? Do they have an active developer program? Hell, I don't know. I've gotten several IIUG conference brochures even after signing up, but nobody calls me or emails me about squat from Informix. They now want to remain silent and maybe this is some kind of strategy. It's almost like ALL the friggin employees of Informix want the company to go belly up. Nobody there gives a shit. Bizarre. Just F***ing bizarre. -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com