Re: Hmmm, it's starting....

Noons wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1074726364.725762_at_yasure>...
>

>>Since when is any company obligated to offer Beta testing to every user?

> but that was the Oracle policy. Up until 10g.

Ok now I'm both surprised and hurt. Not once with Oracle 6, 7, 8, 8i or 9i was I ever invited to be a Beta site. Where's that #@%$^&%# bottle of scotch? ;-)

> Actually that was a reply to Joel, calling him a cynic. ;)
> Believe me, they DO owe a few people a LOT more than just the license
> agreement. Joel and Mladen are in that number.

That ... is unrealistic. It is hard to find a company that even believes it owes its own employees a job any more.

> Me? I'm just a dirt, bad-smelling colonial who deserves nothing.
> According to their marketing and some of their damagement. Never mind
> that while I was their employee for 2.5 years the company went from 0
> to the largest db supplier in Australia. It has NEVER grown much more
> since then. Ah well irrelevant, I'm sure.

When you are the biggest that does tend to be growth limiting unless you want to play monopoly games like you know who.

> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam

-- 
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)