Re: upgrade

The only last comment to this is that we must be in different worlds. We do not beet anyone, but talk sensibly to them and get excelent results. ppr@deckard.hb.north.de (Patrick Preuss) wrote: :Nils Myklebust (Nils.Myklebust@idg.no) wrote: :: First it isn't bad. :: Second if you have a problem with a support contract on a product like :: the Informix OnLine engines you will have problems with every product :: in this category. :The O-Thing also? Different experiences on this side. :: Do you expect this kind of product to be totaly bug free? :Not totally, but to an extent where you do not have to FEAR a new release. :: You shurly can't have any operating system on your computer. You would :: hit bugs. :Sure we do. :Praise the good old times, where everything came from one vendor, who :was responsible for his product in every respect. :Nowadays the customer/integrator is the fool, cause the DB/OS/...-people :can lay back and point the finger to the bad guys, "ask them, it must be :their product". :It's the dark side of C/S-development, and the Force isn't with me. :: Even if you hit no bug (we have no significant problems even with a :: version known to have several of them) do you expect everything to run :: so smoothly at all times that you will never need any kind of support? :Tell this MY customer, who wants only to run his business and not paying :an expensive consultant (me) working fulltime to keep his installation :stable. :The customer beats me, and I cannot beat noone :`( :Bye, :Patrick Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org