Re: Symantec Cafe Pro (JAVA) Support for Informix

Although I initiated this thread, the quote "Do you 'really' think..." (see below) is misattributed to me and was actually written by an individual opposing my original comment. Indeed, nothing I wrote appears in the garbled passage posted, a copy of which appears below. The moral of this is that people shouldn't use the reply-to-with-copy feature of their newsreader beyond the second generation of a thread unless they know what they're doing, comment appropriately, and use great caution. More generally, people should avoid the quoting of quotes of quotes. It's sloppy and unreadable. It's a barbarism worse than multiple nested-if statements in programming. And it's libelous. Richard Schulman --------------------------- 5ah6ie$qlo@shiva.usa.net> jcz@mgma.com (Jan C. Zawadzki) posted the following gobbledygook, which I copy verbatim: In article <E3MwFr.2z8@news.nsw.CSIRO.AU>, peter@prospect.anprod.csiro.au says... > >In article <5ah6ie$qlo@shiva.usa.net> jcz@mgma.com (Jan C. Zawadzki) writes: >>In article <32c89ee2.1678003@netnews2.worldnet.att.net>, >>R*A*Schulman@worldnet.att.net says... >> >>Do you *really* think that a $300 tool is going to affect a $40K database >>buying decision? Sybase thought so, and look where it got them! > >Actually, I do. Given that you can use any of the 4 main DBMS servers as (...) >One of my projects consumed over $500K in development. Even a 20% saving >when you're talking this sort of money is worth going for. If you are working on $.5M projects in Java I've got a bridge to sell you.. :) Jan