I think that IBM has indeed started to muscle in on QuickRef. We just installed a new version of IBM's Fault Analyzer, and it has a pretty good message lookup facility built into it. AFAIK, it only works from within Fault Analyzer, so QuickRef doesn't have anything to worry about. Yet.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30 Sep 2008 07:16:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grine, Janet > [GCG-PFS]) wrote: > >>I have always thought of QuickRef as an automatic "sure let's get it" >>kind of product. Has anyone heard of other similar products? What kind >>of experience can we expect in the area of cost increases for this >>product over the long term? > > What I never figured out is how a product like this could have more > than a small window of usefulness, before the main product's company > (IBM) incorporates its advantages. > > Sometimes the window is bigger than we expect - it took time before > IBM decided it wanted to keep the sort business. > > Sometimes the window is naturally small - by the time Microsoft got > disk compression, that model had run its course. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
