Greg,

Is it resolved? Call Martin Gorfinkel directly at LARC Computing. Get the
direct story from him. Martin and I are in contact quite frequently. I am the
internal support for Fantasia within HP. My understanding from my last contact
with him leads me to believe that you may not be getting all of the
information. Martin has not lead be to believe that if someone contacts LARC
Computing wanting to purchase a new Fantasia license, they would be denied or
turned away. New features are being worked on. Some requests from me for HP.
Call or e-mail Martin.

Since JetForm has obsoleted the JetForm Merge on the MPE system only as of
v5.1, they might be confused about what the Fantasia software actually does.
They might also think that ALL MPE software offered by JetForm is 'obsoleted'.
I am only guessing.

If there are plans for JetForm to change their marketing approach and product
available, then someone from JetForm should be in contact with me. HP (and
Agilent Technologies) relies on Fantasia and has directly received reassurances
from JetForm that Fantasia has a long product life cycle.

Is it resolved?

JetForm, please clarify this for all of us.

Cheers!

David Warner
AIT Systems
Colorado Springs Spool Services
Americas Print Process Owner

Mail Stop M3S-Z, Santa Rosa, CA
(707) 577-4471
(707) 528-9408 Fax

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Subject: JetForm/Fantasia - resolved (?)


I have just received an email from JetForm apologizing for the mixed
messages about Fantasia.

It goes on to state that Fantasia/3000 "... is not generally available.
Fantasia/3000 is only available as an upgrade to current Fantasia
customers. JetForm Central is the only product generally available."

I should have purchased Fantasia years ago before JetForm took it over and
stopped it.  Now JetForm has no HP3000 products :(

Looks like I'll have to use JetForm Central, which we already have on the
LAN for another (PC-based) application. I just have to automate sending the
files from the HP to the JetForm's directory (shouldn't be too difficult - maybe
Samba could help here, so now I've got a real reason for setting it up!).


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