Re: Seeding the market (was Informix Directions)

Tim Schaefer (tschaefe@mindspring.com) writes: >>Paul Brown of Informix.Com wrote: >> Whatever problems IFMX may have, lack of market vision is not one >> of them. Paul, I CAN'T F***ING BELIEVE YOU SAID THIS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHY INFORMIX MUST GO OUT OF BUSINESS, OR GET NEW PEOPLE IN AT THE TOP WHO KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON. You don't have a lack of marketing vision? Might be true, you have no vision or marketing at all! Sheeeeesh! An absolute outrage. If you are responsible for the current strategy inside Informix, then it's no friggin wonder your company is where it is today. Arrogance, absolute arrogance. Your company is in dire straights, yet denial is the order of the day. You have a new captain of the ship who really doesn't understand your product line, and yet somehow he's going to turn things around. I really question the soundness of mind at Informix. Where is the leadership????? Where is the shareholder value???? Where is the voltage necessary to power the brains at Informix? Why are people who are being sued still being allowed to make command decisions? http://securities.stanford.edu/complaints/informix/ >> The reality is that selling commodity SQL engines is >> going to be hard. REALLY? Let's ask Microsoft or Oracle about how hard it is. The simple fact is you people are in denial. Reminds me of the Titanic. Oracle sells a bucket of bolts for an engine, same for Microsoft. People buy it anyway, go figure. I can't imagine why these companies succeed. Hmmmmmm, could it be how they market their products? OR how they treat their customers and developers???? Hmmmmmm..... >> Fine. Don't fight that battle. Instead, go >> where the strength is. Ub let's lay down and go for the easy sale, tuck and run from the very market we could dominate if we know what the f*** we were doing. I think we suddenly found the crux of the problem at Informix. The very people who we need to get things changed are incapable of understanding the problem. And it's worse than I thought. In the history of companies I have never seen the extent of wrong thinking, arrogance, and indifference to customer wishes. Let's watch Informix come back from the certain failure that awaits them. This is a sad day. It's absolutely f***ing amazing. Let's ask Novell and Sybase and IBM and Lotus and ... what happened. Place your bets, looks like easy odds for me. Your company deserves the losses looming ahead. It'd be one thing if you really were reaching out to your customers, and developers, but this attitude problem is going to kill your company. End of story. What a waste of time. Tim Tim Schaefer tschaefe@mindspring.com http://www.inxutil.com ICQ:6358805 #include <lobotomy.h>