RE: NEWSWire/400 05.07.97

Do you remember the connection between HAL and IBM?     -----     HAL is
one step ahead of IBM (check the alphabeth...)/Joakim

Joakim Svensson
IT-Architect
Cap Gemini, Sweden

>-----Original Message-----
>On May 09 you wrote:
>
>>I have NEVER seen a 100% Guarantee like this to "identify 100% of the places
>>you need to look at" and endorsed by IBM staff too.
>>
>>Are you sure?
>>It does not say that either Web Site.
>>Delivery  apeared to be  different  -  later in 97
>
>Read again more closely and you'll see it says it'll identify all the places
>you need to look at for the fields you've identified as dates. It doesn't say
>it'll identify every date field. Even so, 100% does sound a wee bit
>unrealistic. It goes on to say:
>
>>>Basically, the tool builds a storage map of all data used or defined in a
>>>program and then tracks its movement from one program to another.
>>>The user then identifies all date fields in database files, and Bypass
>>>tracks those date movements. (If you don't identify some
>>>date fields, it may not track that field's movement...
>
>Is this for real, BTW? The software developer is apparently called Hal. I
>thought IBM had a _big_ downer on that name since Arthur C. Clarke's
>eponymous computer threw a wobbly in 2001, and they thought it was referring
>to them. Now we have IBM, Hal, and the year 2000 all coming together in one
>confidence-inspiring infallible product. Is someone having a joke?
>
>Dave Kahn - Tengizchevroil, Kazakstan
>=========
>
>e-mail:  kahnÉtco.infonet.com       (until June 11th)
>         dkahnÉcix.compulink.co.uk  (from  June 12th)
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