Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox
To   : David Noon
From : Murray Lesser
Date : Sun Oct 08 2000 12:16 am

(Excerpts from a message dated 10-06-00, David Noon to All)

Hi David--

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

DN>The presentation of the CD's is much nicer, with a leather [or vinyl
  > leatherette?] case to hold the dozens of CD's. However, the
  >Developer's Toolbox seems to contain all the same stuff as the
  >Developer Connection did: copies of Warp 4 and WSeB; Java; OS/2
  >Developer's Toolkit 4.0 (with CSD4) and 4.5; more varieties of DB2
  >than you ever thought existed; Java; the Red Books and other
  >documentation, much of it antique; more f***ing Java.

    Mine arrived last month some time.  The fancy binder is too big to
fit on my desk, so it lives on the floor next to my desk.  As far as I
can tell, there is nothing in it that interests me that wasn't in the
last version of DevCon (I don't have the "Premier/Enterprise" stuff), as
I am not involved in "eBusiness" and don't intend to install the newer
OS/2 FixPaks :-).  So I didn't install any of it.

    My subscription dies in December.  I don't think I will renew, even
at the lower price, since my "developer" interest is limited to text
mode utilities under OS/2.  But, I suppose that if you are interested in
developing Windows applications for the Web, the new "Developer's
Toolbox" is a great buy :-(.

    Regards,

        --Murray
<Team PL/I>
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