CA show strong commitment to Plex and 2E!

I blogged recently about the May Mainframe Madness and in this I referred to the realignment occurring within CA. 

I am happy to report that CA's plans for 2E and Plex are not affected and that new roadmaps (as I predicted) are imminent and will be published on CA support online in the coming weeks.

Extract from a recent communication for which I was a recipient.

"Following the email regarding the recent realignment at CA, please be advised that, for legal reasons, we are not in a position to provide further detailed information until after the end of May. We reaffirm that CA is committed to continuing to develop and support CA Plex and CA 2E; this realignment had no effect on our plans to continue these products forward.

We are in the process of publishing updated roadmap documents for CA Plex and CA 2E that will be available on CA Support Online in the coming weeks."

The key words above are reaffirm, committed, develop, support and no effect.  Being a 'Scrabbler' online, some of these words are worth more than others, but, all together they send a strong message.

All the legal stuff will be that there is an alignment process that needs to be adhered too.  Any product news positive or otherwise will be linked to the alignment process which is ongoing.  Once this is resolved I suggest it will be business as usual or BAU for us Three Letter Acronym freaks.

I'm happy. After all I am pushing for CA Plex to partner our CA 2E development at my employer.

Thanks for reading.
Lee.

CA Mainframe Madness

Hi,

Most people are aware that CA have decided to trim their staff and products and I must admit I had my heart in my mouth for a second as the Plex and 2E tools are very dear to my heart.

I am pleased to hear that my fears are unfounded.  Although, like most I am eager to hear from my friends at CA regarding product roadmaps for 2010.

However, we might get a little insight for what is next with these great tools at CA's mainframe madness event which is coming to an internet connection near you soon.

If you take a look on the CA Mainframe Madness website www.ca.com/mainframe/may you can see that the presentations will be available in a virtual environment for the whole of May.  There certainly looks like a few interesting presentations and I am so so so so eager to see how Rob Layzell and the team are getting on with the features for Plex 6.5.

There are a total of 23 sessions for us Plex and 2E users (fans) and some are even in Spanish.  You can click on here and view them - Mainframe Madness Sessions - Scroll down to the Modern Development Tools section and read away.

I am looking forward to seeing these. 
So enjoy and,

 "REMEMBER TO REGISTER". 

Thanks for reading.
Lee.

p.s. There are some PC prerequisites that you will need to adhere too so I suggest you do it ahead of time.