RE: Salesmen's promises

Posted in 1993

Corinne Gregory — Thu, 28 Oct 93 7:35:13 PDT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> In-Reply-To: <2ahta5INN6bs@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> johnl@informix.com (Jonathan Leffler) > > TITLE: Re: CREATE PRIVATE SYNONYM > > The 4.1x coders were not prescient... > This is a lousy excuse 8-) Salesmen can *always* tell you what's > going to be in the next release. Ok, 9 times out of 10 they tell you > it's in the release they're trying to sell you but... NO KIDDING!!!! And, then they turn around to the poor developers and their manager and say, "Listen, we gotta have this for the demo to such-and-so client." You ask them when the demo is, they say, "Friday." You look on your calendar...and it's already Wednesday! > 8-) <- Big smiley 8-D <- I add a laugh as well! - Cg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- ---- - Corinne Gregory (corinne@ocsg.com) - - - - - Mgmt. Consultant Financial Data Systems, Inc --- - - --- - 2451 152nd Ave. NE - - - - - Redmond, WA 98052 - ---- ---- - 206.881.6505 Diver's Creed: "Go deep, stay long." ------------------------------------------------------------------------