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Subject:
Straw Poll - Suprtool Windowing SURVEY RESULTS
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Cherryl Ball <[log in to unmask]>
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 24 Jan 1998 16:26:50 -0700682_us-ascii Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]> wrote (under "Cognos alternatives?")

>I know that Adager (among others) decided to charge a fixed price regardless
>of machine size. Perhaps that is due in part to altruism, but somehow I
>suspect it's also possible because they have (what I would guess, but
>certainly have no data to substantiate) a very large, very loyal, and very
>satisfied customer base paying them enough annual support to finance the
>size and type company they wish to be. Even this is now changed now that HP
>has introduced the 918/DX for software developers. I notice that Adager
>seems to be [...]40_24Jan199816:26:[log in to unmask]
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Wed, 28 Jan 1998 07:53:35 -0600
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Here are the responses I received.  I received 17 response all together. Of
those 17, 4 were not relevant.

>1. Are you expanding all of your dates?    YES - 9          NO - 4
>
>2. Are you selecting dates for expansion?  YES - 9          NO _ 4
>
>3. Are you windowing all of your dates?    YES - 8          NO - 5
>
>4. Are you doing a mixture of expansion and windowing?      YES - 7   NO -
6
>
>5. Is Robelle's decision not to allow a windowing functionality
detrimental
>to your shop?  YES - 8       NO - 5

I know that this does not represent all of Robelle's customers and that
this is a little late in the game to start complaining. Most of the
responses that had a replacement plan were going to write COBOL programs.

From a personal standpoint the project was out-sourced and we did not have
to investigate these matters...or so we thought. So now here we are trying
to keep things working as usual. If Robelle does not put in a windowing
version we will probably write COBOL programs to accommodate our sorting
issues.  This certainly defeats the purchase of Suprtool. We have however
written some code to allow us to continue to use the $TODAY and $DATE
functions in Suprtool. It is a clugey way to do business. We are currently
testing this process and would be happy to share it when fully tested.

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