I have been a frequent reader of the old PLM DataEase forum that was merged with the Ffenics forum. I appreciate the fact that you have a new DataEase forum here, but  since I am still a DFD user you lack a lot of the history of the "original" forum so it would be nice to know if the forum is down permanently as it looks this way to me. 

If I am not mistaken it is now close to two months since it went down and I can't believe that it would take that long to restore a backup?

If this is a permanent situation it would be nice to know.

I am sorry Alex but we have no inside information on what is going on at Ffenics.

The Ffenics forum has a DataEase section but it is not related, supported or sponsored by us in any way. As you point out the PLM Consulting people threw their lot (and their forum) in with Ffenics back when it was spun off from Sapphire so that is how the PLM sponsored DataEase forum ended up on the Ffenics website.

We appreciate every resource out there that support our customers in developing and using DataEase both new and old so we too would very much hope that the forum comes back up. 

However 2 months seem very long for a website to be out of business in this day and age and we have observed that the usage of the Ffenics forum had dwindled so it might be that Ffencis us this opportunity to get rid of it. I guess only time can tell.

Until then you are more than welcome to put your requests on here as long as they are DataEase related as we don't have a Ffencis thread on this forum.

Hi! I don't know anything about the status of the Ffenics forum, but I too need to find references on old DataEase stuff. The truth is that neither the current DataEase forum, nor the Ffenics forum contain all the good old stuff even when working.

The old PLM forum is actually still up and running even though it is no longer supported or new threads allowed to be added.

You find it here:
http://www.plmconsulting.com/plmforum/

I don't believe the ffenics forum is meant to be down permanently, but it does show staggering lack of customer care and technical ability to not have this back up and running.

We've been without the forum as long as we've been without Robin Williams. Hopefully one of those two will make a comeback!

There is a "Ffenics Club" facebook page where you might like to poke them to get an update. 

Glad to see that the old PLM forum is still available for the time being. They have been very good friends of DataEase for a very long time.