RE: Informix customer support outside U.S
The original poster asked whether IBM had stopped supporting Informix in the Middle East, since the Informix Middle East office had closed and IBM's local customer support staff seemed unaware of the product. The only substantive reply was a plug from a third-party consultancy (Paul Watson) saying they do support Middle East customers. The rest of the thread drifts entirely into off-topic banter about English place names (Scunthorpe, Norfolk) versus Norfolk, Virginia. No answer about IBM's actual support arrangements is recorded.
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Watson > Sent: 18 October 2003 00:35 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S > > > <blatant plug> > > We support customers out in the Middle East:-) This is not another reference to Scunthorpe is it ?????? > > </blatant plug> > > mak wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > Does IBM stopped supporting informix in middle east, since they have > > closed down informix middle east, customer support never heard of > > informix when contacted at IBM M.E. Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list
Colin Bull wrote: > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org >> [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Watson >> Sent: 18 October 2003 00:35 >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S >> >> >> <blatant plug> >> >> We support customers out in the Middle East:-) > > This is not another reference to Scunthorpe is it ?????? More like Norfolk. And Good! >> </blatant plug> >> >> mak wrote: >> > >> > Does IBM stopped supporting informix in middle east, since they have >> > closed down informix middle east, customer support never heard of >> > informix when contacted at IBM M.E. -- Ciao, The Obnoxious One "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: >Colin Bull wrote: > >> >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org >>> [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Watson >>> Sent: 18 October 2003 00:35 >>> To: informix-list@iiug.org >>> Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S >>> >>> >>> <blatant plug> >>> >>> We support customers out in the Middle East:-) >> >> This is not another reference to Scunthorpe is it ?????? > >More like Norfolk. And Good! Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic instead of the Middle East . . . . .8-)
John Carlson wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown > <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>More like Norfolk. And Good! > > Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic > instead of the Middle East . . . . .8-) This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but Norfolk, Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I was talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. :o) -- Ciao, The Obnoxious One "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:bnjt16$12n4qt$1@ID-64669.news.uni-berlin.de... > John Carlson wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown > > <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >>More like Norfolk. And Good! > > > > Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic > > instead of the Middle East . . . . .8-) > > This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but Norfolk, > Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I was > talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. :o) "...place that's not even in America!"????? Arrrrggggghhhh, my eyes, my eyes!!!!! 'Sides...every one knows America is flat and there be monsters at the edges...
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:54:20 -0500, Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > John Carlson wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>>More like Norfolk. And Good! >> >> Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic instead of >> the Middle East . . . . .8-) > > This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but Norfolk, > Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I was > talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. :o) OOOOhhh! So, that's where the Virginian red-neck tendency towards in-breeding came from! Apologies to friends south of The Line, but I couldn't resist. Art S. Kagel