Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox
To : Vitus Jensen
From : David Noon
Date : Mon Oct 09 2000 01:19 pm
Hi Vitus,
Replying to a message of Vitus Jensen to David Noon:
VJ> 06.10.2000, David Noon wrote a message to All:
DN>> Mine arrived today. It is much cheaper than the Developer Connection
DN>> programme was at the Enterprise level.
DN>> The presentation of the CD's is much nicer, with a leather [or vinyl
DN>> leatherette?] case to hold the dozens of CD's.
VJ> Huh, a new case and a complete set of CDs? I've just got the magazine
VJ> (subscription was DevCon Advanced and is now xxxx).
I received a stack of CD's and the case, as well as the magazine.
I was also on Dev Con Advanced, but renewed at the Enterprise level. However,
the subscription for Dev Toolbox was only UKP135, whereas Dev Con Enterprise
was UKP731. [Prices exclude VAT.] It is not really that much better, but it is
much cheaper.
DN>> By the time I have installed it all, using Netscape, the next edition
DN>> will be out.
VJ> They do an installation on hard disk? Great.
The catalogue does not install onto a hard disk, unlike the original,
pre-Netscape Dev Con. There is a hard-copy catalogue inside the vinyl/leather
case, though.
VJ> I hated to search first
VJ> for the CD with the master cataloge (they do not always had a writing
VJ> on it...), open the cataloge with Netscape, search an interesting
VJ> item/product/documentation, search the CD with the item, open a
VJ> commandline to install the product, goto start.
I have a Nakamichi CD-changer installed in this box, so I can have 5 CD's
on-line simultaneously.
VJ> Not to mention that my machine locked up two or more times in
VJ> the process when I tried to use the Java cataloge. Thank you IBM for
VJ> the wonderfull DevCon 2. I can't think of a way to make the
VJ> thing more useless.
Well, the Web was the word when Dev Con 2 was formulated. You had to look at it
from the product manager's point of view: anything that didn't require a
bloated browser was legacy technology.
VJ> And you say the Developer Toolbox is much better now?
I guess it's "better" in a Microsoft way: it looks nicer, but the contents are
still much the same.
VJ> I'm looking forward to receive the CDs...
Well, there are plenty of them. They even include a mainframe [see origin line]
version of DB2 V6.1, just like I use at work.
Regards
Dave
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* Origin: My other computer is an IBM S/390 (2:257/609.5)
