Re: California Software in the News again...

Our bank is still using a dongle when accessing their website, it provides 
an encryption key to validating that we are who we say we are.


On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:59 -0500, pnelson wrote
> Do they still use a dongle to handle the licensing? For you younger 
> folks, a dongle was a piece of hardware that attached to either the 
> parallel or the serial port (can't remember which). It somehow made 
> sure that the software remained on the machine associated with the 
> dongle. 
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> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> 708-670-6978  Cell
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> Jen Raihala <jen_raihala@xxxxxxxxx> 
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> Re: California Software in the News again...
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> OUr company gave a test drive to their Infinite
> iSeries (touted as a handy all in one packager from
> you to the customers PC..no hassle, no As400 needed on
> the client side to compile, it was all packaged and
> ready for the PC to use and understand).
> 
> We had 2 programmers doing the final decision making
> testing (before our temporary license ran out and the
> licensing was a total hassle as well. The rep told us
> different than their billing people).
> 
> Our programmers had all the updates according to the
> mythical Oscar (one of their techs) and yet every
> email and phone call to tech support by our
> programmers was basically telling them to get the
> newest updates, which they had according to this
> Oscar. One of their techs even went so far as to tell
> our most senior programmer that he surely didnt know
> what he was talking about and insisted that all he
> needed was the updates.
> 
>  The issue that kept our techs calling them was that
> an unknown typo (I say unknown because they were
> following the manual step by step) in the packaging
> together of the modules would cause the program to
> boot you out completely to their sign in with out
> telling you where the typo was.
> 
> Our company decided it was too much of a hassle and we
> dropped them.
> 
> But ya didnt hear it from me ;)
> --- ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > He sure sounds like a real stand up guy... has
> > anyone on the list ever had
> > any real experience with the company as a customer? 
> > Just curious...
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> >              "Wilt, Charles" 
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> >              AM                        California
> > Software in the News 
> >                                        again... 
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> > Interestingly enough, this time it's an iSeries
> > Network email.
> > 
> > Yesterday's NEWS Wire Daily had a story about the
> > top 10 results found when
> > you do a web search for "iSeries".  California
> > Software was apparently #6
> > on Yahoo. The iSeries network reporter interviewed a
> > Bruce Acacio, CEO of
> > California Software.
> > 
> > Anybody else find this vaguely disturbing?
> > 
> > Charles Wilt
> > --
> > iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> > Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> > ph: 513-573-4343
> > fax: 513-398-1121
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