RE: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion
>>>"Everyone thinks he has the prettiest wife at home". >>>(Except me of course!): ... Not true, I've met your wife and she's a very lovely lady.... -----Original Message----- From: Neil Truby [mailto:neil.truby@ardenta.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:58 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion "Tim Schaefer" <tim@spamethnot.com> wrote in message news:aS4Wb.70395$uk5.47108@fe08.usenetserver.com... > Hmmmm. I'm sensing some jealousy... Informix came from 'merica, then > DB2, looks like in the long-run you'll continue to just take it. Same > for Linux, which came from UNIX, which came from 'merica. > I just get teary eyed at the thought of how great my country is! > Excuse me now I have to go to work without wearing a coat today, > it's so nice and warm here in FLORIDA EAT YOUR HEART OUT CLOWN. Passing in dignfied fashion over the "My country's nicer than yours" debate, and pausing only to point out that, as the great French philosipher Arsene Wenger once observed, "Everyone thinks he has the prettiest wife at home". (Except me of course!): ... Do you , Dear Reader, see no dangers for IBM in this attitude ("If it had 'DB2' in the name I wouldn't go near it, even if it was really Informix...."), or do you think it's easy to dismiss as the rantings of a bitter techie, and unlikely to be reflected by a real decision-maker? sending to informix-list
Hamilton, Jerry wrote: >>>>"Everyone thinks he has the prettiest wife at home". >>>>(Except me of course!): ... > > Not true, I've met your wife and she's a very lovely lady.... Hey! I was there first! (Apart from Neil, of course.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Truby [mailto:neil.truby@ardenta.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:58 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion > > > "Tim Schaefer" <tim@spamethnot.com> wrote in message > news:aS4Wb.70395$uk5.47108@fe08.usenetserver.com... >> Hmmmm. I'm sensing some jealousy... Informix came from 'merica, then >> DB2, looks like in the long-run you'll continue to just take it. Same >> for Linux, which came from UNIX, which came from 'merica. >> I just get teary eyed at the thought of how great my country is! >> Excuse me now I have to go to work without wearing a coat today, >> it's so nice and warm here in FLORIDA EAT YOUR HEART OUT CLOWN. > > Passing in dignfied fashion over the "My country's nicer than yours" > debate, and pausing only to point out that, as the great French > philosipher Arsene Wenger once observed, "Everyone thinks he has the > prettiest wife at home". (Except me of course!): ... > > Do you , Dear Reader, see no dangers for IBM in this attitude ("If it had > 'DB2' in the name I wouldn't go near it, even if it was really > Informix...."), or do you think it's easy to dismiss as the rantings of a > bitter techie, and unlikely to be reflected by a real decision-maker? > > sending to informix-list -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche