Viasoft's OnMark 2000 product is not an .exe scanner. It is designed to look at spreadsheet and database code to find non-compliant Y2K logic.
If you go to a Y2K trade show, Viasoft will give you these neat little tufted cotton targets with a couple of velcro covered ping pong balls to throw at it. The outer ring is "data" and worth 10 points, then comes "applications" for 20, "operating system" for 30, "hardware" for 40, and, of course, the bulls-eye is "OnMark 2000" for 50.
Just in case CSHK has (or is planning) a competing trade show giveaway product, allow me to do a quick review of Viasoft's offering here:
1. Installation was easy; there is a convenient rounded metal thingee on top in which I stuck a thumbtack to hang it on the door.
2. It appears they cut corners on the ping pong balls. They were your garden variety type with velcro strips glued on. The kids had no problem pulling them off.
3. The target consisted of two pieces of cotton sewn together and there were no typos printed on it.
4. I found the tactile feedback to be of fair quality. If you threw underhanded at the target, the balls stuck. If you wound up and heaved, the balls tended to dent and bounce off.
5. Lastly, for those with kids, when you get hit with the ping pong balls it only stings for a few seconds.
- Jeff |
