Re: Converting from Informix till SQL-server, Experiences ?
Posted in 1996
> Billy Boy's love affair with this tired old hag really sickens me. Hey, hey, HEY!! A little more respect when you talk about my wife.... :-) Ohhh, you meant Bill *Gates*... No, but seriously folks, it is nice that you can use the same language to tie up spreadsheets, word processing and enterprise wide, mission critical apps. Well, spreadsheets and wordprocessing, anyway. Well, erm, ah, errrr, <cough> We've been conned by one client into writing a VB app, and I swear: it's the first and last. To hell with the fact that runtimes are free; to hell with the lower cost; to hell with the nice trimmings; to hell with the fact that you can tie in MS Word... VB SUX! -- Ciao, Billy +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Billy Wheeler Junior Programmer / Director The West Solutions Group | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Informix FAQ is at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | .... oh, and Kerry, I see it's _still_ not at rtfm.mit.edu... :-) | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+