Sorry to see this day has come, and grateful for the work you did
in making XDC and the zXDC.
In all the times that I had access to it as xdc or zXDC, it beat
out all other debuggers and made fixing and developing easier.
I wish you well and want you to know you will be missed.
--
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 11/1/2025 1:38 AM, David Cole wrote:
As of this date (November 1st, 2025), my and my son's
association with Colesoft Marketing has ended. It has been a
long, sweet ride, but now it is over.
However, this is not the end of the line for z/XDC, quite the
opposite in fact. The development team remains, and future
plans are exciting, so stay tuned.
I want to thank the developers, Mike, Frank, Peter, Cleon,
Amber and Chris, for their loyalty to me, to the company and to
the product. They are a first class development team, and they
will have the pleasure of bring z/XDC into new arenas, while I
will have the pleasure of resting.
I especially want to thank Mike and Frank whose contributions
to z/XDC and its support have been epic!
Mike joined me at in the 1980s way back at the very beginning.
He was the designer of the 3270 fullscreen interface which has
been the face of z/XDC ever since.
Frank came on board in the 1990s as the newest of newbies. He
went from zero to becoming an absolute maven on his own! He
developed a deep knowledge of assembler, of z/XDC, of z/OS, of
Windows, of Linux, of languages and tools I've never heard
of... of everything he needed to, and a lot more. Today, he is
by far the best troubleshooter I have ever known. And of
course, his coding skills are superior!
While I'm focusing on the long term friends, I am by no means
want to slight the newer guys. Peter and Chris bring with them
lifetimes of knowledge and skill, while Cleon and Amber are
helping to bring z/XDC into new worlds.
I also want to thank Wendie, Tamara and Dolly for their decades
of loyalty to me and the company that I created. Tamara and
Wendie built the back-office from scratch, and Dolly kept in
clean.
And of course there's Bob. He joined up with me in the 1980s at
the very beginning and became the face of z/XDC to so many of
you. He was a constant presence for our customers, knocking on
doors, learning what people liked, reporting to me what they
didn't like or were confused about or was broken, running
classes that trained so many of you! He was a major reason for
Colesoft's excellent reputation with out customers!
I will miss these people. But it is time for me to go. And now
I'm gone.
Dave Cole
Developer and Code Poet
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