Re: Goodbye

rkusenet wrote: Bye, Ravi, you will be missed. And thanks for you own contributions to the cause. Art S. Kagel > Hi all, > > With a heavy heart I have to say that time has come for me to > retire from c.d.i. I have been working with Informix products > for more than a decade (since OL 5.1) but I doubt I will ever > work again. I am changing job and in my new job I will work > with any database except Informix:-(. > > Without seeing the familiar onstat and dbaccess on my desktop on > a daily basis, there is absolutely no motivation for me to read , > c.d.i let alone post. > > I just love this product. In fact I feel that anyone who works > with Informix first (before other databases) will be spoiled for > good because of its elegance and power, something I can tell from > my experience with SQLServer and a brief exposure to DB2 on LUW. > > The c.d.i community has always been excellent and I would like > to mention Jonathan Leffler, Art Kagel, Madison Pruet in particular > for their technical help. > > And yes- special mention to trolls like Tim Schafer( I suspect his > new avatar to be Datagoob), Mark Townsend (super sense of humOr) > and Daniel Morgan (absolutely n(0) pretentions of impartiality). > > ravi > > > > sending to informix-list