Thank you for saying what I didn't and reminding others. Yes I will be
cordial as I want to effectively get across my point of view. Adolescent
verbiage certainly doesn't support them hearing what I want to convey.
thanks,
--george
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim LoVerde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 1:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Name change
>
>
> As infuriating as this is, I'd like to remind everyone to be
> cordial with
> regard to any feedback to JD Edwards. It would seem to be
> allright to send
> something along the lines of "I am unhappy with your decision
> to pursue
> trademark litigation with the Java Development Environment
> over the JDE
> acronym...". But please don't send things like, "Your company
> sucks...corporate bs....blah blah blah".
>
> Paul has done an excellent job developing, enhancing, and
> coordinating feature
> submissions. I'd hate to see him take a bunch of heat
> because J.D. Edwards
> received a bunch of hate mail from JDE users in addition to
> the trademark
> dispute.
>
> On a more humorous note, perhaps you could just change the
> name of it to a
> symbol and refer to it as the "development tool formerly
> known as JDE"...
>
>
> "Mandler, George" wrote:
>
> > > By the way if any of the JDE users would like to send
> > > comments about this
> > > I believe the company is (Paul correct this I got the wrong
> > > one from searching
> > > on the net).
> > >
> > > J.D. Edwards & Company
> > > One Technology Way
> > > Denver, CO 80237
> > >
> > >
> > > Direct to J.D. Edwards headquarters:
> > > 877-613-9412 or 303-334-4000
> > > For regional sales and marketing inquiries:
> > > 800-727-5333
> > >
> > > J. Syre
> >
> > This corporate bullying really gets my blood boiling. When
> I get home (I
> > don't want to use my company's servers!) I plan on going to
www.jde.org to
> the "contact us" page. They have a feedback form where we can tell them
> what we think.
> An important point is that JDE is free software. (Irnoically they are a
> software house that uses Java for their development!)
>
> --george
