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Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted.

Posted in 2005

Topics: General Discussion

Obnoxio The Clown — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Data Goob said: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> I must agree. It's extremely rare in any substantial organisation that >> the >> management will buy what the people at the coal face want. "Strategic >> decisions" are taken on the golf course and in the fancy restaurants. >> > > Yeah, I've been to many of those little meetings. They go like this: > > "so what's going on with your new database selection?" > > "my tech guys are telling me to go with _____ for our xyz project. We're > stuck with ___ until we can migrate off of it to ___ or maybe ___." Really? The ones I've gone to have generally gone like this: "so what's going on with your new database selection?" "haven't really made a selection. what did you guys go with?" "we went with X" "how's it going?" "pretty good so far, well, no-one has lost their job yet" "sounds like a good choice" -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche A smile is a gift that is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. But giving someone the finger is free too, and I find it more personal and sincere. sending to informix-list

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Data Goob — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Data Goob said: > >>Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> >>>I must agree. It's extremely rare in any substantial organisation that >>>the >>>management will buy what the people at the coal face want. "Strategic >>>decisions" are taken on the golf course and in the fancy restaurants. >>> >> >>Yeah, I've been to many of those little meetings. They go like this: >> >>"so what's going on with your new database selection?" >> >>"my tech guys are telling me to go with _____ for our xyz project. We're >>stuck with ___ until we can migrate off of it to ___ or maybe ___." > > > Really? The ones I've gone to have generally gone like this: > > "so what's going on with your new database selection?" > > "haven't really made a selection. what did you guys go with?" > > "we went with X" > > "how's it going?" > > "pretty good so far, well, no-one has lost their job yet" > > "sounds like a good choice" > > Hmmmm.... this sounds like quite a few other conversations I heard.... :-)

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