Re: User group meeting last night in Dallas

A combination, I think.  He had been given a brand new laptop to use because
what he had couldn't handle it.  That, coupled with lots of small things,
led to the problems.  Was he prepared?  He is a teacher by profession.  He
seemed prepared, rehearsed, and enthusiastic.  Was it a failure of the
product?  Probably not, but the combined effect was that all of us that have
tried to use the product feel a little less like tadpoles.

Another interesting comment I heard repeated over and over after the meeting
 and I have heard continually for 10+ years, was "How can I get the CDs? 
The company says they can't find them, and they won't look for them, and
they won't let me look either.  I want to fool around with this on my own
time. "    It just seems impossible to get these CDs on a regular and timely
basis.  Even if we could get an old set and then update from the web....
 
 
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Booth Martin
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From: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Date: 06/22/05 09:47:01
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] User group meeting last night in Dallas
 
So,
unprepared or just a dramatic failure of the product?
 
Ron Power
Programmer
Information Services
City Of St. John's, NL
P.O. Box 908
St. John's, NL
A1C 5M2
Tel: 709-576-8132
Email: rpower@xxxxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.stjohns.ca/
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User group meeting last night in Dallas was interesting but distressing to
an IBM bigot such as myself.  The presentation was   eServer Studio
Development (IDE) IBM WebSphere  versus  Microsoft VisualStudio.Net  and
was
billed as being as " An unbiased live demonstration of both these products
will be presented and will be processed on an IBM eServer i5."
 
It was the best attended meeting of the year, by far.  Nearly everything
went well and we all learned a great deal and it was a positive
experience.
 
 
However, Wepsphere failed.  We could see exciting pieces of it, but it is
just too complicated to use apparently.  I came away shaking my head and
wondering why it has to be so complicated and over-engineered, or
something.
  Once the first piece of the project failed, the speaker's attempts to
recover the demonstration just led to a cascading of problems, and finally
all communication with the iSeries was lost.
 
I have to admit that VisualStudio looked simplistic to the eye, but gosh,
it
worked.
 
 
 
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