<begin vendor rant> General Rant for ISV's and latest version....
How hard is it to put the latest version available numbers for your software on the web in an easily accessible format? Apparently, with a few exceptions, this must be a extremely hard thing to do (sarcasm). I constantly run into roadblocks when trying to determine what the latest version is for a given piece of software. I dislike having to call up/e-mail every single vendor just to find out what the latest version of their product is. It sometimes adds days to my process when trying to estimate how much work may be involved to upgrade a particular product to the latest version. Sometimes the process gets so garbled, I end up getting software keys (items I don't want) in addition to the information I really want. I will hold up a few Vendors that should be emulated ... IBM, Innovations, MacKinney, Phoenix are a few examples of vendors that put the version information out in an accessible format. Please put your support/latest version information for your products on the web in a way that EVERYONE can get to it!!!! </end vendor rant> Rob Schramm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
