Originally posted by: raj1

What happened to Janhess?
Hey! John are you there? we are missing you.
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Originally posted by: repanzer

He had posted a while back that he was leaving. Then he came back for a bit, then he posted he was leaving again, and what he thought was for good. If the threads are kept that long, I'm sure you can search the forum for the post.

He was great. Extremely knowledgeable.
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Originally posted by: raj1

Thanks for your update Repenzer.I see you are filling the vacuum created by Janhess in replying the queries promptly.I appreciate this.Keep posting as this forum needs people like you and Jan.Thanks.
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Originally posted by: janhess

I'm still alive and well but working in a different world. Thanks for the positive comments - I always tried to pass on my experiences. I still keep an eye on the forum just in case but I'm now in the Open Source world of Talend, MySQL etc. Much less rigid than WTX.
Hope your projects are going well.
Good luck
Jan
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Originally posted by: repanzer

Good to hear everything is welll janhess and all the best moving forward.

And thank's raj, I guess sometimes I'd rather help here then do my daily tasks. Feel like I get more out of it sometimes.
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Originally posted by: raj1

Great to hear that you are still working though in a different environment.
I am sure you are doing the same support job to all developers who are working on that tool.Please get connected to this forum once in a while to keep all of us happy.Best of Luck to all your endeavours in future.
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Originally posted by: thorstenhirsch

Hi Jan,

I know an IBM forum is not really the right place, but please keep us posted about Talend, how it compares to the WTX world and such. I've seen them at Linuxtag this year, they had their own booth, and I even won a cup, a t-shirt, and a bag from them. :-) Anyway, my impression was that they're building their product pretty much on and along the "usual suspects" of the open source world. Is it a mature product? Is it fun to work with it?

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Originally posted by: janhess

Hi Thorsten.
I was initially concerned that it wouldn't live up to my experience with WTX but having used it now for 4 month I'm finding it very easy to use and very versatile. With a bit of Java knowledge it's probably even more versatile.
We pay for the subscription service - support and added features, and the support is generally excellent however I don't find the forum nearly as good as this one. The only people who answer posts regularly are the Talend members - users seem to shy away from answering but this may be due to the types of problem experienced.

The main benefit for our project is that it produces Java or Perl code so we're not tied in if we decide to move to WTX in the future.

If anyone requires more info it's probably best to communicate via email - I don't want to be accused of supporting the opposition on a forum I was always pleased to use.
Jan
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