Re: Call me grumpy, but....

Hey, he's back! Still such an NT fan, Joe? From: Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom4.netcom.com> > >Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > >: Is it my imagination, or has there been an unseasonal plethora of RTFM >posts >: lately? Either it's good news, and Informix is winning a whole bunch of >new >: converts, or it's bad news and all the good folks are leaving for greener >: pastures, to be replaced by a bunch of clowns who can't be arsed to read >a >: manual (ipse dixit). > >Obnoxio, > >In all fairness, it seems to be getting harder and harder even to FIND >the FM. Much of the doc is now on CD and less and less is available >in hard copy (without jumping though hoops to get it). Nah, that's hooey mate. The docs are all on CD, and thank goodness for that. They change so damn quickly, Informix would be assaulted by tree huggers everywhere if they still pushed paper manuals out everywhere. I've gone through about 8 revisions of the CD in the last year, can you imagine if I'd got 8 sets of manuals? I'd have had to read at least one of them. (One for our regular viewers) >I have a column on the http://www.devx.com website called "Ask the Informix >Pro", and I've noticed that more and more of my questions are coming from >application developers who are trying to access Informix thru ODBC or JDBC. >These folks probably have no idea where to even look for the manuals. Yeah, and I'm sure they just learned Java and VB by osmosis. I will grant you that you have to highlight "fast links" on the Informix home page to get to manuals, I think it should be a more clear and obvious link, but really, I don't have a great deal of sympathy for people who say they can't find the manuals if that's all they have to do. :-) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: : Hey, he's back! : Still such an NT fan, Joe? You missed me? I'm touched. Yep, IDS on NT is a killer. I just installed a CRM system in Japan on IDS NT 7.30. We're processing every item purchased in an 800-store chain, using a 4-way 550MHZ IBM Netfinity. It takes longer to ftp the data files to the Netfinity than it takes to actually process the data! I'm not claiming that Informix on NT is fastest or most efficient, but in many cases, it is enough to do the job. Coupled with other factors such as on-site-expertise, common training and common platforms, and corporate IS standards, I feel very comfortable recommending NT IDS. Joe