Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox
To   : David Noon
From : Vitus Jensen
Date : Thu Oct 12 2000 05:26 pm

Moin David!

09.10.2000, David Noon wrote a message to Vitus Jensen:

 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. 

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

 DN> I received a stack of CD's and the case, as well as the magazine.

One cannot expect to get something in germany as soon as it is available in the 
UK.  But I've got my toolbox in the meantime.


 DN> I was also on Dev Con Advanced, but renewed at the Enterprise level.
 DN> However, the subscription for Dev Toolbox was only UKP135, whereas
 DN> Dev Con Enterprise was UKP731. [Prices exclude VAT.] It is not really
 DN> that much better, but it is much cheaper.

I think our old subscription will last some month till and as the new modus is 
cheaper it will last even longer (but I read nothing about the effects of the 
conversion).


 DN>>> By the time I have installed it all, using Netscape, the next
 DN>>> edition will be out.
 VJ>> They do an installation on hard disk?  Great.

 DN> The catalogue does not install onto a hard disk, unlike the original,
 DN> pre-Netscape Dev Con. There is a hard-copy catalogue inside the
 DN> vinyl/leather case, though.

So it's the same as before.  Doesn't cheer me up.


....
 VJ>> I'm looking forward to receive the CDs...

 DN> Well, there are plenty of them. They even include a mainframe [see
 DN> origin line] version of DB2 V6.1, just like I use at work.

If I had to say the thruth: the CDs are really worthless to me/us: I'm doing 
microcontroller stuff at work (under OS/2).  So it just matters if some great 
tool for OS/2 appears on the Toolkox (or maybe a fixpak).  As this will never 
happen it wouldn't matter if I throw them out of the window.  The developers 
working on PC software are all using MS products and would never touch IBM's.

You are happy that there is software for your system on the CDs.  But wait 
until MS ships an OS for the S/390, IBM will happily convert to an 
all-consultant-firm.

Bye,
   Vitus

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