Re: Symantec Cafe Pro (JAVA) Support for Informix

Richard A. Schulman wrote: > > 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 > Yes, maybe so. My friend Nikita told me, downing a shot of vodka, "if you post often I can make you internet star ". You never know, we could find stuffed dolls at the book store in your likeness. Haven't heard from Nikita in a while. :-) > --------------------------- > > 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 If man was supposed to use one interface on a computer he'd have been born with a computer monitor. -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) Orlando, FL, USA, Earth -------------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o-------------------------------- WWW: http://www.mindspring.com/~tschaefe Liberty: http://www.lp.org Informix FAQ: http://www.iiug.org INX_UTIL is now an on-line magazine... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------