[stellation-res] Re: Request to be involved in beta testing

[Dave Shields <shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:50:29PM +0800, Dale Bennett wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.  I want to use stellation to manage a system that
> I am working on and VSS just doesn't cut it for maintenance cycles.
> Stellation sounds like exactly what I need as I find I am manually branching
> continually and it's just too hard without a tool that helps you manage
> that.  In order to use the system soon, I am willing to beta test for you
> guys.
> 
> I have java and database skills in DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Ingres and some
> others although some of those skills are rusty these days!  Would prefer to
> use SQL Server surprising as that may seem, as that is what the client uses
> and I can help to port if need be.
> 
> Regards,
>             Dale Bennett.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Shields" <shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Newsgroups: eclipse.technology.stellation
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Request to be involved in beta testing
> 
> 
> > Dale Bennett wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me how I can be involved in the beta testing of
> Stellation?
> > >
> > >
> > Subscribe to the stellation-res mailing list, let us know what you are
> > interested in, and we can sort out how best to proceed. For openers, it
> > would help to have new users try to install our system, read (and hence
> > review the documentation), try a few things, and report problems or make
> > suggestions. We are particularly keen on getting help porting our system
> > to more relational database managers, but database expertise is not
> > required.
> >
> > thanks,
> > dave
> >

Thanks for the note, which I am copying to the stellation-res mail list, to which I 
suggest you subscribe, so the fun can begin. There's lot's to do.

Re SQLServer, the more the merrier as far as supporting databases.

dave

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Dave Shields, IBM Research, shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.