Re: VB -> ORACLE on UNIX
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:50:22 +10
Message-ID: <conz.41.0104E9BC_at_highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au>
In article <CwJu8r.9xJ_at_sesinc.com> brada_at_ses21.sesinc.com (Brad Albom) writes:
>From: brada_at_ses21.sesinc.com (Brad Albom)
>Subject: Re: VB -> ORACLE on UNIX
>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 20:58:02 GMT
>Hi All-
>FLAME ON ... (and those who are familiar with my posts in other groups
>know that it has been years since I've seriously flamed anyone on the net)
>I'm pissed. I mean really pissed !
>I've been betrayed, big time. Based on my evaluation of Q+E MultiLink/VB,
>I've made recommendations to some large clients that they change over from
>VB's Data Controls to Q+E. During my evaluations I didn't even consider
>products that carried per seat royalties, since my clients typically have
>several hundred to thousands of potential client seats.
>Now it seems the boneheads who've "acquired" Q+E have found the perfect
>way to kill a product. Piss off your customers by telling them that they're
>going to have to pay more for a product upgrade than you did for the
>original product !
>So, effective today, I'm going to be contacting my clients and telling
>them that they should complete any already-started projects using the
>current release of Q+E, but that any future work should absolutely be done
>with something else.
>And to the new owners of Q+E (Intersolv ?) I sincerely hope that your
>company dies a quick but extremely painful death.
>... FLAME OFF
>Well I guess I feel a little better now.
Brad. I'd be spitting buckets too! ;)
I have a sneaking suspicion that Intersolv's acquisitiuon of Q + E may have
some bearing on this dicision. We're seriously thinking of writing our own
ODBC drivers....
Con Zymaris <conz_at_cyber.com.au>
Cybersource Pty. Ltd. Windows/Unix integration and TCP/IP network management +61 3 822 2848 FAX +61 3 822 2858 1275a Malvern Rd, Malvern.Vic. Australia Received on Wed Oct 05 1994 - 14:40:22 CET