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From: bgolden@infmx.UUCP (Bernard Golden)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix 4gl
Summary: thanks, brian
Message-ID: <447@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 14:36:10 GMT
References: <473@pan.UUCP> <597@white.gcm> <1364@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <1364@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, brianc@daedalus (Brian Colfer) writes:
> In article <597@white.gcm> dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell) writes:
> >In article <473@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
> >
> >[More rambling complaints].
> >
> I love Informix-4GL.  I think it is an expressive and powerful system.
> And I think Jamie get's too exicited in his/her criticisms and sometimes 
> isn't always very careful ... like most of us are at times... :^)
> 
> But I like seeing most of Jamie's vigorous criticism's because they
> relate to some important incremental improvements needed in
> Informix-4GL.   So (Informix people) read what Jamie has to say and
> take what he/she says with a smallint of salt. :*)  

Thank you for your support. (:-)

Many of us do monitor this newsgroup, and pay attention to the discussions.

Regarding bugs:  Each release contains fixes.  How many depends upon time
constraints, generally speaking.  Naturally, we try to fix them in descending
order of severity.  While no software product is perfect, we pay a lot
of attention to quality.

Regarding features:  A trade-off between number of features and time to
market.  Compounded by our ability to do enough high-quality releases,
and customers' willingness to do installs (that is, customers only want
to absorb releases every so often.)

-b