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Is it just me, or did Bill Randall say:
> There is always resistance to a licensed product.

Strangely, I have no resistance to my licenses.  Mostly because my software
is legally fettered but -technically- entirely unfettered.  It's not
resistance to a license that people exhibit, it's resistance to license
managers.  Don't confuse the two.  Maybe you weren't confused, but I'm not
just being pedantic--there's a real delineation here.

> As for any issues related to performance of 5.0.14 vs. 5.0.15 or 5.6, 
> those would have to be addressed by fpsupport.  All I can say is that 
> we do development and support for several extremely large end-users 
> and have no issues with any of the currently released versions.

And AT&T doesn't have any phones in their engineering department,
BellSouth/AT&T see no noise on a line whose DSL sync is going down more
often than a valley girl on prom night, and we actually found WMD in Iraq.
These and other fallacies can be yours for the low, low cost of $0.00.

Almost every software product has issues, whether they're known or unknown.
Ken, what's the issue list look like so far on 5.6?  How about ODBC?  I
mean, Bill, these release notes bugfix lists come from -somewhere-.

Apparently at least a few customers know of some issues.  Maybe I should
get the specifics from my client and make them public.  That would be
rather embarrassing, especially if they're accurate and legitimate issues
that haven't been addressed.

Actually, I can already say there are known issues--use of blobfix is still
occasionally necessary as recently as three or so months ago.  A client had
to use it with either 5.0.14 or 5.6 (probably 5.6 by that point).  I've
been told that the reason the same routines in blobfix aren't used in the
real product is because they're slower and less efficient.  Now...if there
are -no- known issues, why is there a blobfix program at all?  "Fix"
implies "issues" in my book, and probably most people's.

mark->
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