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Re: Product to check out?

That product sounds a lot like FAST/400.  I think IBM's interactive tax is 
sheer piracy.  However, if you don't like it, leave the product, or lobby 
IBM to change.  I wouldn't recommend using software to thwart the govenor.
1 - There is a potential for every ptf to disable the product and require 
a reinstall of the hack.  And all new ptf cover letters have that 
disclosure in them.
2 - In this situation IBM prefers you do a give/give relationship. Failure 
to accept the interactive tax, or redesign all your applications to the 
web or C/S environment to workaround the interactive tax, will make IBM 
less inclined to play nice in other ways.  Granted, it's a "by the short 
hairs" relationship.


Rob Berendt

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