Maybe I should get this guy to do SuperLink's website ;-)

http://www.causeculture.org/

"
I work independently, and also collaborate with Extentech, Inc.
to provide you with the best in design, programming, and hosting.
Your project will always have the scalable support it needs.
"

-Andy




On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:19:58 -0400, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> 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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