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To: David Eddy who wrote (1871)	1/4/1998 6:52:00 AM
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>> Excuse me!!!! Such blatant company PR cannot go unchallenged! << Excuse me !!!! The information I posted was taken directly from ConSyGen's Web Site: consygen.com >> 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. << Funny you should ask, the Motorola pilots took longer to do, primarily due to the fact that every time Motorola sent CSGI code, It turned out that there was still more missing. Mr. Jeff Richards, CSGI's V.P. at the Westergaard Conference. ====================================================== >>Our background is that we are in the business of creating conversion tools. The emphasis that we make is on total system migration. When we do a conversion, even if its the Year 2000, we make sure that we read the entire system. The effectiveness of Year 2000 conversion will be directly limited by what you don't convert. If you convert 90 percent of the code, you just don't have a 90 percent result. You could have a zero result. It is not possible to take one program and to extrapolate from that, the fact that this client has degree of problem. You can't just take one program and say, oh gee, I found half a dozen date references, therefore here is an indication of the size of the problem. You have to read 100 percent of the code in order to convert 100 percent of the code. Now, you are sitting and you have got that because you are all bright people. But usually when I say something like that, I put is as conversion 101. You can't convert what you don't have. We go through the process of making sure that everything that is in a client's environment that they wish to convert must be able to be read and understood by our tool set. Our tool set reads through it all. It reads through every program. It makes sure that if a call is made to another program or to a copy member or whatever it might be it follows that logic path and it reads it and it reads everything that is in that because you see it is looking not only for date fields, it is looking for everything that it has to do because there is code in there that will be impacted. You change a date field, you have to change the underlying program -- procedure logic as well or the storage logic. So, therefore, we are addressing all the elements that are in an environment. << - Jeff Richards at Westergaard Conference. ======================================================= Once CSGI had received all the code from Motorola, the project was completed in approx. 10 days, with the actual conversion only taking a matter of hours. No one claims anything is "magical". The facts are clear, "you can't convert what you don't have" I feel that one of the most important aspects of ConSyGen's tool is that it will show that there is code missing that the client has not sent. Now compare this with the body shops who don't care if the client has sent them all the code or not. All they care about is converting the code and sending it back. What do you think is going to happen when the client, after getting the code back, realizes they didn't send all the code in the first place. Let us say that they had only found 90% of their code, do they have a 90% solution or a ZERO solution. Never mind that the code they get back will, most likely, contain many errors due to the fact it was converted manually. ConSyGen's toolset, not only helps the clients automatically convert the code that they do find, but it also shows what is missing. You can't convert what you don't have, and ConSyGen makes sure they have it ALL. David, I really don't know what you are trying to challenge. The only way companies can even attempt to get 100% results,( possible or not), is to convert 100% of the code. Companies who use the body shops and other conversion methods that don't care if they have all the code or not, will have a rude awakening. ConSyGen's toolset not only automatically converts the code that they do have, but is shows what they don't have and need to get. No magic, just a toolset that works and a company that wants to make sure that ALL of the client's code is converted.