Re: An insider's view

>I hear every day that we have the best 4GL on the market ! It seems >that our 4GL has a very big share of the Unix market. I don't hear >very much from the marketing department that there should be so many >[.......] >say our 4GL is really a fourth generation language. And if there is >nothing which is much better - why should we spend money for >implementing all these features if we can sell it as it is ? That is a foolish, asinine, and dangerous attitude. A 'very big share' means nothing unless you propose ways to keep that market share. Witness IBM. You have a big share of the Unix market. Great. But are Oracle and Sybase sitting on their fannies? No way, dude. And how about the PC market? I've seen the MS-DOS version of 4GL, and it's a dog. You might as well give it up. Novell B-trieve products will eat you for lunch. I hope your attitude is not the prevalent one at Informix. If it is, then I suppose it would be in our best interest to start looking for another platform, one who gives a damn about its users instead of considering it a privelege just to own their product. -- *davE* Making the world safe for intelligent dance music. dave@bradley.edu. ########## David L. Vessell -- Bradley University Computing Services ######### Your shame is neverending. Just one psychological drama after another.-Erasure