RE: You're all missing the point!

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM [mailto:jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM]
> 
> >The point is, if IBM says "we're no longer developing SEU" 
> its going to
> >mean that in 2 or 3 releases, they'll stop distributing it, 
> too.  Then
> >it'll cease to exist..
> 
> 
> Wrong.
> 
> It will disappear when the 5250 data stream disappears.  
> Query/400 hasn't
> been enhanced since....... Can't remember.    IT ain't going away.
> 
> CL hasn't been "Developed for"  for 20 years.  It didn't disappear.
> 
> SEU may never see one new enhancement but they wouldn't ever 
> take it away.

Agreed.  Look at the S/38 utilities - nothing in there has been enhanced
since at least 1986 (CPF Release 8), and it's still there.  I think it's
almost funny that Text Management/38 is being considered as one path to
preserve OfficeVision mail merge applications, some of which were probably
converted the other way years ago!

PDM and SEU may be stagnant, but that doesn't mean they're up for
euthanasia.  Just because I advocate using PC-based editors doesn't mean I
want SEU to vanish - it still has its uses, and probably always will.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

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