RE: reliability?

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> Happy you! We are working also with Oracle and MSSQL. Both=20
> have many week=20
> points but both give:
> - easy access to developement versions of engine
> - FREE and immediate and easy to find access to patches
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IDS has easy access to developer versions.

I presume to get "free" patches you had to pay for the s/w up front.

When you get patches do you also get new features/enhancements too? IDS
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 never sup****ted a patch mechanism as such and you sometimes get new
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es/enhancements. I'm not sure you get free patches to Oracle on Unix
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rms.




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