On 24 Jan 2001, at 9:59, Riho-Rene Ellermaa wrote:

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From: "Riho-Rene Ellermaa" <r.ellermaa@...>
Date sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:59:16 +0200
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Subject: RE: [IBO] Urgent - Problem with StoredProc and prepare

> Sorry, if I offended you. I tried to finish with humorous sentence - I
> read yesterday article about selling and salesmen. There was sample of
> Ford salesman who was asked about how good their cars are. And the
> answer was :" I don't know, I drive Volvo". Maybe I should have put
> more smileys after the last sentence (about Oracle).
>
> I don't blame FB developers, but those who wrote this bug - whoever
> they are. I'm not very happy with big companies attitude to bugs.
> Other example from Borland - in their BC++ 5 (3-4 years back) they
> had error in one of the header files (richedit.h I think) - open
> comment /*. Of course it's easily fixed, but not for the beginners.
> The same mistake is still in their BC++Builder 4 !!!! I don't know
> easier bug to fix.

It's possible that this bug, sneaks around the debugging scripts,
and that nobody has reported it to the people responsible for fixing it.
Realistically the support team, should file a bug report, with the
development team, but it's possible that one was filed years ago,
and it never arrived.

> But take small developers - they can't afford to lose clients and
> maybe they have associate more with their products. When some bug is
> found in IBO, then the fix comes up in days if not in hours. And
> that's done with only by 1 person - Jason.
>

Realise that for a company like Jason's or mine, to fix a small bug,
is easy and cheap, we simply fix it. For a large company, where
corporate political wills are involved, and approvals have to go
through 47 people, most of whom exist only to make the process
difficult, then it's much more difficult, and expensive. A Bug that
costs, Jason or I $5 (worth of billable time), could cost a company
like Borland $500,000 (worth of management and development time) to
fix.

Now Firebird could fix this one, but then programs that work on FB
might not work on IB. I don't know, is there a way from IBO to find
out what version of the DB engine is being used? Hmmm, Jason, if
your reading, is there a way to find out what version of the engine
is being used, even if it's on another machine?

Paul
Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
Email: paul@...
Website: www.tricattechnologies.com