Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!varese.UUCP!kjj From: kjj@varese.UUCP (Kevin Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Informix, Databases and Problems with bugs Keywords: Brewhaha Message-ID: <12699@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> Date: 10 Apr 90 18:04:32 GMT References: <9662@ingr.com> Sender: listen@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com Reply-To: kjj@varese.UUCP (Kevin Johnson) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az. Lines: 36 In article <9662@ingr.com> hovanes@ingr.com (Kenneth Hovanes 7938) writes: >From the side of the users, I agree a bug list would be nice to have (I do >have one), but not necessary. Dbase IV is a database product and a very >popular one at that, but they do not make it company policy to let everyone >who requests it, see a bug list. Noone in their right mind who intends to >sell software would open themselves up like that. You have got to be kidding! Little Johnny does it so it's ok for you to do it, right? I suppose pleased repeat customers are 'nice', but not necessary... >Granted there are a lot of problems with the .03K release of the Turbo >engine, but hopefully most of these problems will be solved in the 4.0 >release of Online. I for one can say the Online product is much more >comprehensive and does indeed fix a lot of outstanding bugs. Ya, And the salesman my boss talked to told him that Turbo would solve alot of the problems we were having with the older product. Come on, computer companies have been using that excuse for too long. Besides, the issue in this thread is not whether the bugs are being fixed, but whether I'm made privy to the list of bugs so I can use the product more effectively - therefore be more tempted to buy the newer product offerings. >Just remember... >You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people >some of the time, but in the software industry products are constantly >changing, and everyone complains. Just remember... A poor excuse is better than none. #include .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Kevin Johnson ...!mcdphx!QIS1!kjj | | QIS System Administrator Motorola MCD kjj@phx.mcd.mot.com |