On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:45:52 -0600, Arthur Gutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:25:04 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[..] >>Really, it shouldn't be this difficult to find the info we want/need. >> >Indeed. Isn't there some sort of 'minimum documentation' requirement? Since >we no longer have any hardcopy, we ought to have usable software. PDF just >doesn't cut it. Search and index bite, plus the sundry issues already cited. >BookManager and Librarian are great tools - it's a shame IBM is giving up on >them. Now that it's written in Java, isn't it easy and cheap enough to >maintain and port the code (forget Vista, but what about the many flavors of >Linux, z OS', Mac OS, etc.)? I can't say about Bookmanager Read, but the Softcopy Librarian seems to have some Windows specific add-ons so that it cannot run on anything other than Windows. I don't understand why IBM did this. > >Once again, they forsake a superior product in the name of ubiquity. <SIGH> And, I will bet, to decrease their costs. If they can eliminate bookmanager, then they can drop support for all that software. And they don't charge for it, so maintaining it is a dead loss. > >Regards, >Art Gutowski >Ford Motor Company -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
