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Michael:
Thank you for your informative and perceptive comments. Most programmers
haven't caught up with the pentium 75 and our computers still have a 66
mgherz bus.
Lionel Issen
At 12:04 AM 7/27/97 -0500, Michael L. Robb wrote:
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>Going public means they will have brokerage analysts badgering them to
>pieces every week for earnings estimates.
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> Mgmt will become fixated on quarterly profits; cost accounting will take
>over customer service. Their non-responsive tech support will decline even
>further.
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> If now is the time for owner to bail out with a public offering you can be
>on the lookout for some radically better charting package on the horizon
>developed far away from Omega, that will cause all chart providers to either
>wake up or move aside.
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>An interesting question now is really, just what is the state of the art in
>charting?
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> Master Chartist used to be the leader. Subscribers got tired of renting.
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>Then came Omega with its programability. It became a hot item, and still is.
>MS sort of came in strong and stayed there, but hasn't done anything lately,
>except try to get MS to work on W95.
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>Nirvana is a gorgeous program and faster than anything else in existence,
>but what? The new RT isn't ready yet? or it has problems? And it doesn't
>have enough programability. Does anyone know?
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>What about Papyrus? They ran full page color ads when they came out with
>their first offerings. They had everything. Better than Omega and MS
>combined. But where are they now? I don't see them advertising much
>anymore. What happened? Was it too expensive and didn't sell in volume? Did
>it have flaws?
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>With 56 bps satellite feeds on 18" dishes ready now, and ISDN 128,000bps
>lines coming in from phone companies at reasonable prices, and 300Mhz
>SuperPro Pentium II's available soon at $1299 where is the super duper
>software going to come from?
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>It is fairly clear that the programmers are staying far behind the hardware.
>Is that because all the good ones are being hired away by the big bonehead
>managers to try and fix their y2k problems?
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>How much would it cost to hire some Russian and Chinese programmers to
>create a new custom program, with modular units to permit rapid expansion to
>overcoming all the minor irritances we see expressed here every day on data
>handling, charting inadequacies, etc. etc.
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