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To: tech who wrote (1868)	1/3/1998 3:18:00 AM
From: feltburner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3391

And here we thought you weren't the CSGI PR guy. >>although there will always be some time for project tasks such as date confirmation<< Hate to beat a dead horse, but this sounds like manual intervention during the course of the conversion process (perhaps the 5% part?). Not that this is a big deal, I'm sure savvy clients would prefer this vs. a company saying they load the code in, press a button and ship the code back. Besides, it's what knowledgeable programmers on this thread have been saying all along. However, you did hit it dead on when you said the mkt. makers (and/or large shareholders) would not let the stock stay below $4 bid. -Felt Burner

To: tech who wrote (1868)	1/3/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3391

Tech - Excuse me!!!! Such blatant company PR cannot go unchallenged! - automatically identifies all missing source entities, and reports them to the client; Given that the toolset does it's magic offsite, how many iterations do we expect to perform to identify all the code? What happens here is: On pass one, you find that you're missing component B. You go get B which then you discover needs component C... etc. "Finding all the pieces" isn't just a game of asking the client... because they just don't know. Since the Year 2000 technology is based on a generic Translator developed for full down-sizing and platform migration, the introduction of a new environment is relatively straightforward Sounds great in concept & looks great in the glossy literature... but languages and how they're actually used aren't nearly that simple. In theory all you need to do is get a technical manual from the formal language definition & encode those rules in your engine. But there's a minor problem. Languages tend to have bizare undocumented "features" that are used in field and not mentioned in the manual. Then there's the little issue of getting your hands on enough code for the new language to adequately debug your new rules tables. Particularly in Y2K prospects have proved to be extremely reluctant to allow newbie tool vendors use the client as beta sites. Don't get me wrong... CSGI may indeed have a good tool, but it simply can't be as magical as you (the PR literature) claim. - David