Thank you for using our GADS software as your tool to collect, report and analyze GADS data.

After 35+ years of helping people use and report GADS data, the GADS Open Source software will be officially retired and support.

By providing early notification of the discontinuance, you should have ample time to transition to alternative GADS software.

As the Manager of the Availability Support group for Texas Utilities, my first experience with collecting GADS data in 1986 was using 80-column paper FORTRAN coding forms and punched cards while sending NERC our GADS files on magnetic tape. In the 1980s, I took advantage of the new IBM PC/XT, the CA Clipper programming language, and dBASE III to create the original MicroGADS to run under MS-DOS. The software went through many iterations, product names, and owners over the years; finally, becoming GADS Open Source in 2011.

To work on a product with such broad impact with users around the world has been nothing but humbling; however, being in the power business for more than 50 years, it is time to retire and let others provide you with new software products.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause your facility. We appreciate your business and hope this notice provides you with adequate time to plan for an alternative software solution.