Re: Reports Background engine failures

DA Morgan wrote:

> Preston wrote:
>
> > No. I know it would be a 'perceived' benefit with some CDOS posters
> > who rate the use of unsupported versions at a similar level to child
> > murder, but the reality is we've never hit an Oracle bug with 6i in
> > the several years we've been using it. In the highly unlikely event
> > we do in the future, we'll worry about it then.
>
> Your attitude speaks loudly and clearly with respect to your value
> system.
>
> > > If you don't do it now when do you plan to do it? With version
> > > 11? 12? 20? You should have been making this investment on an
> > > on-going basis.
> >
> > We don't plan to do it with any specific version. When we have a
> > window in the development cycle to look at alternatives, we'll do
> > so - but that won't be this year for certain. "If it ain't broke,
> > don't fix it" - as Shakespeare probably would've said had he
> > thought of it.
>
> That window will never come. You will spend more and more of your
> energy doing stupid stuff like trying to figure out how to connect a
> paleolithic forms tool to the currently supported database. In fact
> right now I've got a smile on my face trying to figure out just how
> you plan on supporting Oracle 11g.
>
> By the time you decide your customers are more important than whatever
> you've currently prioritized you will not have the revenue stream to
> do anything other than hire a bankruptcy attorney.

[Quoted] Careful Daniel, you're getting dangerously close to Sybrand levels of arrogance with that post.

[Quoted] [Quoted] You know absolutely nothing about our customers, nor what's important to them. If you think they'd rather we spent time giving them a version of reports supported by a company they know nothing about & have no dealings with, & which would cost them more money, than to spend time developing the enhancements & extra functionality that *they* are screaming for, then you're so far off the mark it's laughable.

I can only presume you've never worked for a tiny software house (as in a handful of developers) selling a specialised application that's almost entirely driven by the needs of a small number of high-value customers. If you had, you'd know how ridiculous your statements sound when applied to that type of organisation.

Oh, & we won't be spending any time figuring out how to connect a 'paleolithic forms tood to the currently supported database' as we don't use forms. If Reports 6i doesn't work with 11g, then obviously we'll switch to a reporting tool that does work when the time comes. That tool will most likely be an open source Java based product rather than Oracle though.

-- 
Preston.