RE: Outrageous prices real?

Lou,

For economics, you can't beat Bradley Stones Spooled File Tools.

You can download a copy from www.bvstools.com.  I forget what the licensing fee 
is,
but it isn't more than a couple hundred bucks.  Lets you copy spooled files to 
HTML,
RTF, PTF, etc.  Also will email, if your iSeries' SMTP server is set up and 
running.
Has batch commands so you can automate these types of things. The product is
stable, works well, is easy to use and is well supported by it's author.

Granted that there may be things that packages like Create!form do that may not 
be
available in spltool, but this may be of some help, anyway.

FYI, I have no interest in the product, other than the fact that I am a 
satisfied
customer.

--Chris Devous


> From: "Lou Ziegler" <louziegler@ananzi.co.za>
> Subject: Outrageous prices real?
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:27:06 +0200
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> While searching the Net, came across following at
> http://www.midrangeserver.com/mso/mso012902-story03.html
>
> >Other enhancements added to Create!form 2.3 include
> support
> >for creating bar codes in forms. Licenses for Create!form
> start at
> >$10,000, which includes the Create!form design tool, the
> >Create!stream engine, which converts the print spool data
> into
> >the required format, and a license to print documents. The
> >Create!email and Create!fax modules cost $5,000 each,
> while the
> >Create!archive module, which allows users to post
> documents to
> >a Web site, runs $10,000.
>
> Question:
> Are all packages this expensive?
> Who buys this? And why?
>
> We are a small shop.
> We want to generate and distribute reports, economically.
>
> Lou
>