It'd be awesome if you'd write a case study!  :-)

http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/casestudies.html

Can you tell us all what you did for the EBDIC fix?  I'd like to get
that in the next development release.  That is to big of a bug to go
unaddressed.  (I sure as heck don't want to see 2.0 go out the door
still having that problem)

-Andy

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 14:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> POI's best feature is that it actually works.
> 
> Several months ago when I was charged with the unlikely task of getting a
> 390 series mainframe to produce Excel Spreadsheets I downloaded an
> evaluation copy of ExtenTech's product and tried to get a prototype
> running.  The developers at ExtenTech were diligent at helping me fix my
> inital problems until I got something rudimentary working with the
> templates I needed to use.  Satisfied by the incredible service they gave
> to someone who was only evaluating their product, I bought a license
> (imagine what a paid user gets!)
> 
> Once I bought a full license, the mean time to fix the ExtenXLS problems I
> had with my particular templates increased dramatically.  I barely heard
> from the people who were previously so quick to fix the bugs I reported. 
> I was in danger of dropping my deadlines, so in desparation I tried POI
> again and my problems dissapeared.  The only problem that didn't go away
> (EBCDIC conversion) we were able to fix ourselves with some help from
> Andrew.
> 
> I have since received a patched version (too late) from ExtenXLS which I
> could care less about as my 390/XLS solution is now powered by POI.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> > http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/product_features.jsp
> >
> > Hey, Andy, any comment? I think you have a pretty easy-to-use API. :-)
> > Their examples don't look that different, either.
> >
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