Hello FMEers, It's with sorrow that I write to inform you that a long time FMEer and contributor to our community passed away last week. Axel Axmann was an amazing individual in many many ways, and played an important role in the history of Safe and of FME. I was looking through my correspondence with him yesterday and came across the first note he'd ever sent us 8 years ago. In it he'd indicated that he'd been building something like FME for many years, and had just come across our magazine advertisement, evaluated FME, and had decided to shelf the development of his own product and start working with FME instead -- and thus began a long and productive friendship and partnership.
You can read more about our memories of Axel and the impact he had on Safe (anyone attending our FME UC here in Vancouver was a beneficiary of some of that) on our blog at http://spatial-etl.blogspot.com/2007/03/in-memoriam-di-axel-axmann.html. I think another long time friend and FMEer, Flavio Hendry, put it well when he told me recently that events such as this serve as reminders "that there are far more important things in life than arcs & stuff we deal with daily." Worth thinking about... Dale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dale Lutz Safe Software Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP Development Surrey, BC, CANADA phone: (604) 501-9985 http://www.safe.com fax: (604) 501-9965 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For insights into what's up at Safe Software and what's on the development horizon, visit Safe's blog at spatial-etl.blogspot.com. Safe Software has also made slides available that outline enhancements planned for FME 2007. The slides are from the "Road Ahead" presentation given on Day 2 of the FME Worldwide Users Conference. To view these slides, visit www.safe.com/2006uc. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
