Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted.
Posted in 2005
Data Goob said: > Informix went out of business because of ignoring developers and > techies, remember???? Or were you too busy, and hiding when that > happened? Did you forget already? Executives were the ones > preached to the last time around and where are things? In the > shitter. Wake up and get with the program. If you don't have > a ground-swell of developer momentum you don't have shit. It > was all wasted the last time around by a bunch of khaki-pants- > shit-for-brains marketing jackasses who didn't have a clue about > the technology or how to sell it. They didn't listen. And now > you pass off your wisdom in a box. Think outside your Informix > box. The world is passing you by, and doesn't give a hoot > about Informix until and when it says to the world that it IS > important, that it IS the best. This message has to be said, > or nobody will ever hear it. Get it? And you can't shout it > in a newsgroup, or a blog, you have to shout it in advertising > and more than one ad, and really say the words that are not > wimpy and vague. Until that happens, all the nice new features > are just great technology rotting on the vine. Great stuff > that nobody cares about, and nobody is going to use. Forgotten. Not that you're bitter about it or anything. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche A smile is a gift that is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. But giving someone the finger is free too, and I find it more personal and sincere. sending to informix-list