Re: INFORMIX WISH LIST

Richard Stanford wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim Schaefer wrote: > > > I would have loved to have helped out, but did anybody call me? Did > > anybody ask me to evaluate New Era? Did anybody email me and tell me > > to stop poopooing New Era? No on all counts. So I continue to poopoo > > New Era and Informix for excluding me in the future of their products. > > Whoa there. Bitter yesterday, were you? Seriously, have you called your > Informix rep and asked to get in on beta tests, product evaluations, etc? Been there done that. Can't tell you how many times I've called and asked about this. I'm not going to manage loser salesmen who can't sell cars trying to weasel an easy paycheck off software. And expect everyone to come to them on bended knee. I'm sick of it. > That's "called your rep," not "bitched in a newsgroup." > I am not going to chase down Informix reps. They know where to find me. See, if Informix was really serious about developing business in a market they would not try to get all the action for themselves, BY THEMSELVES. It's just Oracle-wannabe crap. We'll work all the deals, and squeeze out anybody that isn't working for us. But if you're gonna play like Oracle you need to provide some developer channel marketing that spans more than two or three sentences in a brochure. And get some salesmen who can actually understand the products. > Our rep (well, our old rep at least (sigh, does /anyone/ have their promised > old reps back yet?)) was excellent. He would work with us to find any > solution needed. I don't know if your rep is easy to work with, but its > worth a try. If you've tried this, and failed, I'd love to hear the > excuses you were given. > > -Richard Here's the excuse: "Oh, you gotta call so-and-so." This goes into a recursive loop. Informix Sales People are LOSERS. I'd fire every last one of them if it was up to me. -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com