Yes, as Dale has rightly pointed out through Flavio Hendry's message, that such events are more important than those arcs and stuffs, I deal everyday through FME. Joining you as a fellow FME-er in the condolence and Safe's tribute to Axel Axmann. I have personally heard a lot about Axel Axmann and our company was interacting with his sometime back. Dale, would like to point the link to the correct one( a small typo in the original message from you): http://spatial-etl.blogspot.com/2007/03/in-memoriam-di-axel-axmann.html There was a full stop at the end in the link in your message to FME-rs and looks like neither the url liked it nor Axel Axmann deserves a full stop in his contribution to FME and Safe Software ( I was greatly moved at the contribution to Safe by Axel Axmann from Dale's review of his meeting and the blog post) We should all rather accept that Axel Axmann was the axle to FME successfully rolling out these years. SRG Dale Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.
