Re: Informix fix policies (LONG) (Was Re: Informix support: Where are you?)

In article <1992May01.192209.14578@cdin-1.compu.com> fred@cdin-1.compu.com (Fred Rump) writes: >aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) writes: >>> choice. After wading through the front ranks, you can >>> find some in tech support who understand the bug you are >>> running into. Unfortunately, they are prevented from helping >>> by company policy. (other than giving workarounds. Whoopee.) > >>More bullshit (and this "prevented from helping by company policy" is >>*pure* fiction), as indicated above. > > I've been following this with some concerened interest. Just yesterday we > had three Informix people here telling us about how great the world is > etc. We are about to become an Informix developer. We wanted to know all > about 'policy' before we bought product. We were, and still are, somewhat > confused. Even AlanD is confused by his own admission. Excuse me? If you're attributing the first block of text to me, you'd better reread the original post... > The company has some strange policies which have me scared about making No, there are some strange myths *about* company policies... > Source has put our destiny into our own hands and we like it. But now > certain people want us to rescue their developmental investment in > Informix and we need to join the binary only crowd again. It's scary. Well, you could always buy Informix source, too, if it's that critical to your needs... >Fred Rump | 'A little learning is a dangerous thing/Drink deep -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "Yesterday, I got food poisoning. I haven't decided when I'm going to use it." -- Steven Wright