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. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional >> > commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional >> commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
