Re: Resolution of IDS/Passport Advantage availability (NOT)

Mr. Redden :) --- "David E. Grove" <david_grove@correct.state.ak.us> wrote: > > "DL Redden" <redden96@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:1110438627.165ff31d20a766bf7edfc9e527bbd934@teranews... > > > > Here is an excerpt from an email from "Marc E > > Tousignant/Reading/Contr/IBM@IBMUS" that I > recieved > > today. > > > > "While there are plans to make IDS 10 available > via > > the DM Gold package > > there is no ETA on when this might be completed. > No > > further information is > > available at this time." > > > > Not to stir sh*t up but we have a single person > here > > giving two different customers the exact opposite > > information, or mis-informix I should say. > > > > Please permit me to also amplify my previous > comments. > > We also received an email similar to the one Mr./Ms. > Redden quotes above. > IBM seemed to be simultaneous admiting and denying > entitlement to IDS 10 for > GOld Bundle licensees. What were we to think? In > fact we have received, > maybe, half a dozen emails from IBM on this issue. > Some indicated some kind > of qualified entitlement; others indicated clear > denial. The preponderance > was, however, negative. See for example, this > excerpt of an earlier email, > which I did not publicize before this present post: > > [IBM PA responding to email in which Alaska Dept. of > Corrections asserted] > entitlement to IDS 10 under Gold Bundle license]"Our > previous replies have > never said you are entitled to IDS 10." > > The first email quote I posted at the beginning of > this RE: "threadlet" was > the most recent one at that time of posting, and > seemed the most indicative > of IBM's position. (That was the one in which IBM > asserted that there were > "no firm plans" to release IDS 10 to the Gold Bundle > licensees.) > > Again, I explicitly exempt from criticism those > IBMers who, with no > obligation to our agency, and no previous > relationship to us, went out of > their way to intervene. I mean Mr. Dryburgh, in the > UK, and Mr. Johnson in > the US. > > Through them our agency has been satisfied. > > My only intent in further posting the subsequent IBM > communication was to > stimulate IBM to make a clear, unambiguous, and > public statement about IDS > 10 entitlement for Gold Bundle licensees. > > From our point of view, the matter is resolved. > > Regards. > > David Grove > > > sending to informix-list