Re: An insider's view

In-Reply-To: <1993Jan5.195133.21463@informix.com> aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) TITLE: Re: An insider's view In <1993Jan5.195133.21463@informix.com> Colonel Panic writes: > Just a few unofficial thoughts from another insider: > > 1) just because somebody has an informix.com email address doesn't necessarily > mean a person is an *employee*. The author could well be a consultant or a > contractor. The Insider IS. > 2) I know a fair percentage of the development staff, and I honestly can't > this of *anyone* in Product Development who shares this attitude. And > a fair percentage of people in Support and Consulting would actually be > as critical (or *more* critical) of response-time-to-feature-requests > than many of the posters in this group. Tha may well be the case, but I'm afraid I can't say where The Insider works. > 3) If we even *attempted* to continue to "sell 4GL as it is" for an extended > period of time... we'd soon get to a point where we wouldn't be selling > much AT ALL... Ain't THAT the truth > 4) I would dispute the assessment that 4.1 4GL's screen handling is "state of > the art". I expect that most people in this group would, too. And most people have! | I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way -- Jessica Rabbit | |------------------------------------------------------------| | Stuart Hemming | shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk | | Tudor Labels Ltd | uunet!cix.compulink.co.uk!shemminga | | Roman Bank Bourne | Tel : (+44) 778 426444 | | Lincs PE10 9LQ. UK. | Fax : (+44) 778 421862 | Stuart |8-)