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- From: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- Subject: Re: Sybase contact fee unfair?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.173246.12638@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 17:32:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Nov13.173246.12638
- References: <wolfgang.721330801@sfu.ca> <1992Nov10.211840.1577@gamelan> <Bxn1DK.L7n@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> <hanson.721673682@pogo>
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- Reply-To: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan)
- Organization: Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
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- In article <hanson.721673682@pogo>, hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson) writes:
- |>Path: pnl-oracle!ogicse!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!pogo!hanson
- |>Reply-To: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov
- |>Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
- |>Lines: 27
- |>NNTP-Posting-Host: pogo.fnal.gov
- |>
- |>In <Bxn1DK.L7n@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> shobhana@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Shobhana) writes:
- |>
- |>>In article <1992Nov10.211840.1577@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
- |>
- |>>Yes, Sybase does not sound like a company which does it's homework
- |>>well. It is a real pity considering that the SQL server is such a good
- |>>piece of work.
- |>
- |>>Not only are they ridiculously overpriced, but they don't seem to be
- |>>bothered about returning calls. I was trying to buy a copy of Sybase from
- |>>their local representative in Bombay---who suddenly seemed to lose all
- |>
- |>>Really ridiculous if you ask me.
- |>
- |>Well, if it makes you feel any better I work at a major computing
- |>installation just outside of Chicago, and we can't get Sybase
- |>to sell us anything either. In our case we'd be perfectly happy
- |>to spend the high support fees, but we have never been able to get
- |>Sybase to give us the support OR to bill us for it. They seem
- |>to have a lot of trouble with either returning calls, getting us
- |>quotes, or selling us anything.
- |>
- |>This is the major reason we are using Oracle for most stuff. Oracle
- |>will at least sell us things.
- |>--
- |>Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
- |>hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov
- |>
- --
- I'm convinced... everyone outside the Pacific time zone gets
- bad responses from SyBase. Fotunately I am here. I get regular
- calls from SyBase in Seattle (WA). They have even come here to
- present new stuff (We are in central Washington). And I get quick
- response from the support center in Emeryville.
- RJ
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