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Advanced GET is a perfect example of the kind of program which is designed
for users by traders with the customer in mind; on request, they developed a
version that would read QP data directly; it took about 6 weeks! Equis
continues to obfuscate with its disingenuous responses to what is the
simplest request in the world.
Alton Stephens
astephen@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Thorsten Buhmann <tbuhmann@xxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: MS 6.5 - Y2K ?
>CSI is a direct competitor of Reuters DataLink. The committee that
>decides who gets the write version of MSFL (the MetaStock file library)
>determined that as a direct competitor they were not going to give them
>the library.
>
>Dear Support People,
>
>I think this dicision will be the Kiss of Death for Metastock. Take a look
>at the competitors of Metastock, like Technifilter. They are able to read
>more and more Dataformats direct and without limits. In this way they offer
>the customer the freedom of "really" free choice. Other datavendors opens
>their format. The opposite of the way Reuters handels his Data-business
and
>I think this will not the future to handel this business. I` m shure this
>was not the dicision oft the Equis people, but the decision of the Reuter
>people who want sell their data-abos. But which programm will the customer
>in the future buy: A Programm with a limited Dataimport or programms with
>the real freedom of choice, datareading without any limits. Which
>Datavendors will the customer chose in the future: The Datavender who is
>directly readg by many programms or a Datavender with limits? Quality ist
>the way to convince. Isolation ist the kiss of death. Reuters take care!
>Happy new year!
>Thorsten
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