Gee Splinter, its no wonder you can't trust IBM when they speak:

On Aug 22, you wrote:
"Being a relative newbie to this newsgroup, my impression is that Gumby
has always "had a grip"...just not on anything of substantial
substance or SIZE. (Wonder what he does with his OTHER hand and 3
fingers)...does anyone wonder if Gumball has any clients? He writes so
much out here that one would wonder.
Splintter - Informix-from-Oracle transplantee"

And now you claim:
"I still work IBM. And unlike you, I not fired from Informix and IBM.
Fellow workers in this part of country know how you left of IBM. And
they all agree it wasn't choice of you."

Unfortunately I don't know who you talked to.
And yes, leaving IBM was my choice. It just goes to show that the people you talk to don't know all the facts.
Like I said, I waited too long, I should have left right after eBU, but that's another story....

LOL.

Usually sock puppets show up when they want to direct the flow of conversation away from topic that they don't want people to talk about.

In this case, the conversation dealt with the lack of IDS sale being lead by the sales team. Last I heard, most of the deals for new customers is coming from the resellers and vars and not the sales team.

What this says is that the community is keeping the product alive. Not IBM S&D.

Oh and I almost forgot someone once said that IBM's S&D doesn't want to sell IDS because they make more money off of the Oracle Services they sell. I kid you not.

But hey! What do I know?
-G

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