RE: Universe and Windows 2000 Server.

From: "Balmer, Glyn" <Glyn.Balmer@biccgeneral-eu.com> > >Posting Of The Week award to the clown ! Very informative. Thanks for the >enlightenment. That's all very flattering, but I think Paul Brown's going to cut my clown suit in an awkward place and raise my voice several octaves for largely plagiarizing his work. :-) All the kudos to him, anything I got wrong is strictly my own fault. >-----Original Message----- >From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] >Sent: 12 September 2000 12:58 >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Cc: paul.brown@informix.com >Subject: Re: Universe and Windows 2000 Server. > > >From: "Matti Lamprhey" <matti@polka.bikini> > > > >"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote... > > > From: "Matti Lamprhey" <matti@polka.bikini> > > > > > > > >I think the use of the word "legacy" is somewhat provocative in the > > > >circumstances, though. > > > > > > Yeah, us dinosaurs using ORDBMS's and datablades take offense > >easily. :-) > > > >Obnoxio, tell me what a datablade is, please. I asked an Informixer > >about this a few weeks ago and the answer was vague in the extreme. > >But I'm sure it's extremely clever, whatever it is. > >It *is* very clever. It's a really good idea, conceptually quite simple and >it's really sad that more people haven't adopted it, but I blame that >entirely upon Informix who have marketed it completely wrong, mostly, I >suspect, because they didn't understand it fully themselves. >[snipped]... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.