Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of.

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <35ko2u$r12@rational.rational.com>,
Kent Mitchell <kdm@rational.com> wrote:
>Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote:
>: Of course, it was their business decision to make, and I'm happy they 
>: finally reversed it in 1991. 'Course the SEED program, nice as it is,
>: is quite difficult to get information about, or rather information is
>: available only sporadically, 'cause the person responsible for it keeps
>: changing and has tended to give it low priority. 
>
>I think Mike means LEAP here.  SEED is Rational's educational program.

Yes. I'm embarrassed by the blunder. Mea culpa...

I got the right company but the wrong abbreviation - I meant Alsys'
program, not Rational's! Rational's SEED program is newer and Rational
seems to be spreading the word on it better than Alsys has.

As I said in the post quoted above, I think Chair hat here) that Alsys 
should be more proactive in publicizing this program. One of its problems
is that the players at Alsys have changed as the merger with TeleSoft 
has played out. 

I'm hoping that Alsys will get LEAP back into some sort of priority.
I'm also hoping that, as Rational works out its reorganization due to
the merger with Verdix, SEED will keep the priority it has and not
lose momentum because of personnel shuffles.

Mike Feldman
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