Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox
To   : David Noon
From : Vitus Jensen
Date : Sat Oct 07 2000 11:18 am

Moin David!

06.10.2000, David Noon wrote a message to All:

 DN> Mine arrived today. It is much cheaper than the Developer Connection
 DN> programme was at the Enterprise level.

 DN> The presentation of the CD's is much nicer, with a leather [or vinyl
 DN> leatherette?] case to hold the dozens of CD's. 

Huh, a new case and a complete set of CDs?  I've just got the magazine 
(subscription was DevCon Advanced and is now xxxx).

 DN> However, the
 DN> Developer's Toolbox seems to contain all the same stuff as the
 DN> Developer Connection did: copies of Warp 4 and WSeB; Java; OS/2
 DN> Developer's Toolkit 4.0 (with CSD4) and 4.5; more varieties of DB2
 DN> than you ever thought existed; Java; the Red Books and other
 DN> documentation, much of it antique; more f***ing Java.
....
 DN> By the time I have installed it all, using Netscape, the next edition
 DN> will be out.

They do an installation on hard disk?  Great.  I hated to search first for the 
CD with the master cataloge (they do not always had a writing on it...), open 
the cataloge with Netscape, search an interesting item/product/documentation, 
search the CD with the item, open a commandline to install the product, goto 
start.
Not to mention that my machine locked up two or more times in the process when 
I tried to use the Java cataloge.
Thank you IBM for the wonderfull DevCon 2.  I can't think of a way to make the 
thing more useless.

And you say the Developer Toolbox is much better now?  I'm looking forward to 
receive the CDs...

Bye,
   Vitus

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