SPUG: Vendor wants to Present

[Meryll Larkin]

1/22/02

I didn't know anything about this vendor nor its
products until I went to the Web site.  These are Web
tools - right? - so their Web site SHOULD be a good
indictor of how good their tools are or what their Web
coding standards are like...   that's my premise,
anyway.  What I found does not entice me to their
"presentation."

Here's my evaluation of the coding on their site:
Their top level pages just miss fitting in a Netscape
4.x window on 800 X 600 resolution and their product
pages and Webtools pages are even worse.  

The HTML appears to have been generated by a (bad)
HTML generator, possibly Frontpage, with tags all in
uppercase and bad indentation, bad boundaries on their
buttons, and extra unneeded tags
(this is a good indicator of bad code - view source on
this page
http://www.teamstudio.com and look at all the </UL> at
the bottom plus the double </HTML> tags).  Their
navigation isn't particularly good (it's confusing,
and in some places non-intuitive - but that isn't
coding, just architectural logic).

All that being said, they obviously want to "make a
presentation" that is going to be an advertisement for
their products - I assume they aren't looking for
speaker's fees.  How entertaining do you think their
presentation might be - is it worth squandering a SPUG
meeting on it - or are we running out of topics and
volunteer speakers anyway?  Would it obligate us to
them in any way?

Meryll


--- Tim Maher <tim at consultix-inc.com> wrote:
> Is anybody familiar with this company, or its
> products?
> Should we let them make a presentation to us?
> Opinions welcome . . .
> 
> -Tim
>
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> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I am writing to inquire about your interest in
> having a speaker from
> Teamstudio present at an upcoming Seattle Perl User
> Group meeting. The
> following is information about our company.
> 
> Company Overview:
> Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Beverly,
> Massachusetts, Teamstudio is
> a global software company specializing in software
> design tools for
> enhancing developer productivity and improving
> application quality.  We
> offer two distinct product lines: Teamstudio for Web
> and Teamstudio for
> Notes.  Teamstudio for Web is our offering of tools
> for Web developers,
> including PHP and Perl developers and developers
> looking to integrate
> legacy systems into existing Web applications. 
> Teamstudio for Notes is a
> modular suite of tools and training for Lotus Notes
> and Domino developers.
> In addition, Teamstudio Partnersource - the
> company's third-party product
> family - offers a menu of tools that complements the
> Teamstudio products
> and represents best-of-breed technologies.
> 
> Teamstudio is an IBM Business Partner.
> 
> For more information about Teamstudio tools, visit
> our Web site at
> http://www.teamstudio.com/webtools or call
> 800-632-9787.
> 
> We'd love to make a presentation to your group on
> our PHP/Perl editor and
> debugger. Please drop me a line if you think your
> group would find it
> valuable.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Jen Labossiere
> 
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