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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix 4GL  (really: Informix product updates)
Summary: sins of the past
Message-ID: <227@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 07:21:04 GMT
References: <3028@cognos.UUCP> <1317@ntmtka.UUCP> <215@infmx.UUCP> <704@vsi.UUCP>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <704@vsi.UUCP>, sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
   (I had mentioned that customers with maintenance contracts will
    be notified of the .03 updates as their ports are completed) 
> 
> This, of course, reminds of the time we were finally notified of an Informix
> update several months after we had already bought it.  We stumbled upon its
> existence whilst making a bug report to the tech support people.
> Good thing we found that bug, eh?
> 
> -- 
> Michael Sullivan		{uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan

Point well taken -- you must be referring to the X.10.00 releases.
In the past, there had been no consistent mechanism for making sure
that notification of updates was sent to affected maintenance customers.
A procedure to do so consistently was set up about a month or two after 
X.10.00 first shipped.  (I know, cuz *I* wrote it.  It even works!)
We figured that a late notice was better than none at all.  :-{

The Sun 3 ports are shipping now.  A number of others are in progress.
The Update information letters will go out as the corresponding ports
are completed (the Sun 3 folks should receive theirs shortly).
If any of you maintenance customers have moved, now is a good time to
let our Tech Support department know your new address.

-- 
 Alan S. Denney  |  Informix Software, Inc.  |  {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
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