RE: OfficeVision!

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Al, 

Don't hold back!  Express yourself!  Let it out!  ;-)

Here's a stupid question:  OV/400 customers have already paid for this
product, right?  (Snide aside: "In more ways than one")  If they no longer
want to support it, why doesn't IBM just port OV/400 to future releases with
the understanding that it is an unsupported product?  After all, OV/400
should be fairly stable by now, and I would think most shops would rather
not have to dig into potentially 7+ year old OV code (like help text and
merge documents).  Would IBM have to change anything to the code just to
keep it going on future releases?

[Oxymoron alert!] Seems like it would be the _logical_ thing for IBM to do.

>Some customers are moving to Domino (IBM' suggested solution) although
>OV/400 doesn't provide 100% of OV, particularly in a 5250 environment.

Huh?

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:29 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Officevision!


At 08:11 AM 3/14/00 +0000, you wrote:
>With this being phased out after the next release, what are people doing
>about their word processing/mail/help docs.
>Lotus Notes/Domino/HTML/some other solution?
>
>Just curious as to how people are dealing with this.

IBM seems quite firm that OV/400 will go away after the release after V4R4.

Some customers are moving to Domino (IBM' suggested solution) although 
OV/400 doesn't provide 100% of OV, particularly in a 5250 environment.

I have two customers with several thousand pages of  "help text" in OV, and 
we are migrating then to a tool that will be supported in the future, Text 
Management/38.

Removing OV/400 is not a stupid move, but the person responsible for 
initiating it in the first place either needs (or already had) a lobotomy.

There are parts of OV/400 that are very good (i.e.: calendaring), but IBM 
doesn't seem to give a shit.  So what else is new?

Al
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