Thanks for all of your work. Good luck with your new job. sv
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Ryan Ackley wrote: > All, > > > > I have taken a new job with a company called SoftArtisans > (http://www.softartisans.com). They develop OfficeWriter, a Java/.NET > product for designing and delivering reports in Excel and Word > (http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-240.aspx). So in a > nutshell, I will be continuing to work on HWPF but it will be integrated > with SoftArtisans OfficeWriter product line and it will be a commercial, > for-sale, non-opensource product. They have also licensed the file > formats from Microsoft. So this means I will *never* be able to > contribute to HWPF development again. > > > > The contributions that I have already made to POI will always be a part > of Apache and I hope that you find them useful. An article that Avik and > I wrote will be appearing in the August issue of Java Developer's > Journal and it covers the capabilities of the existing codebase of HWPF > in CVS. > > > > It is very important to mention that SoftArtisans is committed to the > Java community. They support me continuing to work on open source > projects that do not directly compete with their commercial products. I > am looking forward to following other interests in the java open source > community that I haven't had the opportunity to participate in while > working on HWPF on my own time. > > > > There are many of you that have expressed an interest in HWPF over the > years, I hope you will be interested in paying for a rock-solid > java/.NET Word library that will support ALL of the features of the file > format. At the present time, SoftArtisans offers an impressive > reporting product that preserves all of the features of Word and Excel. > > > > Anyway, its been great working with all of you. My new email address > will be (ryana at softartisans dot com). Look me up sometime. Btw, I no > longer plan on answering any questions about HWPF unless you are a > SoftArtisans customer. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Ryan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
