Re: Old fat guys coming and going

On 10 Oct 97 at 22:52, Dave Kosenko wrote: > "Billy Wheeler" wrote : > >> P.s. - have you heard the latest rumour? We're buying Microsoft. > > > >That is *not* the most ill-considered thing Informix is capable > >of... > > Which, of course, just begs the question: what *is* the most > ill-considered thing Informix is capable of? Sounds like the > makings of a top-10 list to me ;-) My vote is for appointing Larry Ellison as CEO. Also, how about buying Visual dBase as their front-end of choice. And appointing people who say things like "you've got to be brain dead to develop your own application development environment." In fact, if I may digress for a moment, the fat head who made that observation has clearly forgotten the history of that useless and insignificant product, Informix-4GL. I mean, was that a pointless product, or what? Clearly Informix *don't* know how to write decent tools.... <grrrrr> -- Ciao, Billy Nose to the ear in Johannesburg -- Murder City never looked so good! Get FAQ'ed at http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html PISCES Feb. 19 - Mar. 20 You have a vivid imagination and often think you are being followed by the FBI or CIA. You have minor influence over your friends and people resent you for flaunting your power. You lack confidence and are generally a coward. Pisces people screw small animals and pick their noses.