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- From: zellich@STL-07SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Rich Zellich)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: An insider's view
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 09:38:08 -0500
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- Reply-To: zellich@STL-07SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Rich Zellich)
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- > nothing which is much better - why should we spend money for
- > implementing all these features if we can sell it as it is ?
-
- Because, dummy, if *you* don't, someone else will - and will take away
- your customers. And you will be so far behind the power curve that you
- will never be able to catch up to the oppositions better product...by
- the time you match their initial functionality, they will have implemented
- their second-generation product (unless they turn out to be as complacent
- as Informix developers).
-