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- From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
- Subject: Re: An insider's view
- Reply-To: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:35:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan5.195133.21463@informix.com> aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
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- TITLE: Re: An insider's view
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- In <1993Jan5.195133.21463@informix.com> Colonel Panic writes:
-
- > Just a few unofficial thoughts from another insider:
- >
- > 1) just because somebody has an informix.com email address doesn't necessarily
- > mean a person is an *employee*. The author could well be a consultant or a
- > contractor.
-
- The Insider IS.
-
- > 2) I know a fair percentage of the development staff, and I honestly can't
- > this of *anyone* in Product Development who shares this attitude. And
- > a fair percentage of people in Support and Consulting would actually be
- > as critical (or *more* critical) of response-time-to-feature-requests
- > than many of the posters in this group.
-
- Tha may well be the case, but I'm afraid I can't say where The
- Insider works.
-
- > 3) If we even *attempted* to continue to "sell 4GL as it is" for an extended
- > period of time... we'd soon get to a point where we wouldn't be selling
- > much AT ALL...
-
- Ain't THAT the truth
-
- > 4) I would dispute the assessment that 4.1 4GL's screen handling is "state of
- > the art". I expect that most people in this group would, too.
-
- And most people have!
-
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