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- Subject: RE: GCG Synchronisation Problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.174756.27917@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
- From: doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:47:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.145442.6246@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, PARSONS_A@snd01.pcr.co.uk writes:
- ...
- |> message - makes you wonder what we a re paying GCG maintenance for
- |> sometimes.
- |>
-
- I wouldn't be that harsh. Guess where the knowledge comes from first - I
- found the GCG guys to be quite responsive, as compared to other software
- companies. I certainly would appreciate to get all maintenance for nothing
- :-) but I am afraid that we would wait very long to get the next version
- this way. You certainly can flame anyone we ought to pay money but
- the example chosen isn't the prototype suited for blaming.
-
- By the way: did you get the databases from GCG or did you get them else-
- where, and how much did you pay for getting the databases? If you consider
- the current situation of the database vendors, all people expect that
- the data are available for free on FTP, and certainly formatted in
- all available and possible formats. That is apparently true for some
- databases, but you get what you paid for. I don't want to pay more
- either (in particular, the database you had problems with is not the
- cheapest on the block if you purchase its CD-ROM), but the current funding
- model for databases is that the public state money funds the databases
- with really big money, and the users get it for negotiable money. If
- the current growth continues, I am pessimistic enough to predict more
- of these problems as you had in the future.
-
- Regards
- Reinhard
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