Thank you Dave for all the years you have put into XDC. Without it, I’m not sure our company would have done as well as they have. I’m sure Mike VanderLinden would have some special thanks for all of the interactions at ISV meetings over the years. I enjoyed our few brief encounters and wish you a long and rewarding (and well deserved) retirement.
Mark Hammack Systemware, Inc. (sent from my iPhone) > On Nov 1, 2025, at 00:41, David Cole > <[email protected]> wrote: > > As of this date (November 1st, 2025), my and my son's association with > Colesoft Marketing has ended. It has been a long, sweet ride, but now it is > over. > > However, this is not the end of the line for z/XDC, quite the opposite in > fact. The development team remains, and future plans are exciting, so stay > tuned. > > > > > > > I want to thank the developers, Mike, Frank, Peter, Cleon, Amber and Chris, > for their loyalty to me, to the company and to the product. They are a first > class development team, and they will have the pleasure of bring z/XDC into > new arenas, while I will have the pleasure of resting. > > I especially want to thank Mike and Frank whose contributions to z/XDC and > its support have been epic! > > Mike joined me at in the 1980s way back at the very beginning. He was the > designer of the 3270 fullscreen interface which has been the face of z/XDC > ever since. > > Frank came on board in the 1990s as the newest of newbies. He went from zero > to becoming an absolute maven on his own! He developed a deep knowledge of > assembler, of z/XDC, of z/OS, of Windows, of Linux, of languages and tools > I've never heard of... of everything he needed to, and a lot more. Today, he > is by far the best troubleshooter I have ever known. And of course, his > coding skills are superior! > > While I'm focusing on the long term friends, I am by no means want to slight > the newer guys. Peter and Chris bring with them lifetimes of knowledge and > skill, while Cleon and Amber are helping to bring z/XDC into new worlds. > > > > > > > I also want to thank Wendie, Tamara and Dolly for their decades of loyalty to > me and the company that I created. Tamara and Wendie built the back-office > from scratch, and Dolly kept in clean. > > And of course there's Bob. He joined up with me in the 1980s at the very > beginning and became the face of z/XDC to so many of you. He was a constant > presence for our customers, knocking on doors, learning what people liked, > reporting to me what they didn't like or were confused about or was broken, > running classes that trained so many of you! He was a major reason for > Colesoft's excellent reputation with out customers! > > > > > > > I will miss these people. But it is time for me to go. And now I'm gone. > > Dave Cole > Developer and Code Poet
