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- From: drevik@utkvx3.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve)
- Subject: Borland Support: JD Powers AD is B.S.
- Message-ID: <6JAN199317173570@utkvx3.utk.edu>
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- Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:17:00 GMT
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- FYI directed towards future developers who are thinking
- about what C or C++ compliler to use....
-
- I could not believe my eyes when I read the AD saying that
- JD Powers rated Borland as "#1 in service." Maybe in shipping
- and billing, but their tech support leaves a LOT to be desired.
-
- About a year ago, I complained about a linker crash. I had
- all kinds of info from the error message (exception error
- codes, addresses, etc). I was informed that NO ONE there was
- able to use that information.
-
- Later on, I found out what the problem was, and worked my
- way around it (the linker can no deal with a library > 1 MB).
- I TOLD BORLAND exactly what the problem was, in hopes they
- could provide better service to those with the same problem
- who called later, and maybe come up with a solution to the
- limitation. OR AT LEAST IMPROVE THE ERROR MESSAGE!!
-
-
- Just recently, another employee had the same problem and
- called Borland. Did they learn from the data I had given
- them? Of course not. My employee was lost until I
- returned to work.
-
- In short, when you have a problem, expect Borland support
- to say the following:
-
- 1. "Remove all your TSR's and everything in your
- config.sys and autoexec.bat except for FILES
- and BUFFERS. Reboot and try again."
-
- (ie, it's not our problem, it's something you've done)
-
- 2. "Well you might TRY downloading fix fix blah-blah-blah
- from our BBS"
-
- 3. "Neither of those work? I don't know."
-
- Save yourself the long distance charges. Better yet, save
- yourself money and time and buy something else!!!
-
-
-