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It's not technical that's at stake here, it's irresponsible behaviour by these datavendors!!!!
They are assuring (on the sale of their products) it's continuity...........
(the technical bit is therefore a minor issue here:
with in time and upfront undertaken necessary actions their program problems could have
well been forseen and addressed, eg and inform the buyer too that continuity of the product
cannot be guaranteed due to their programs limitations).
Regards,
Ton Maas
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alain Jossart <Alain.Jossart@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Equis Support" <support@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: donderdag 6 januari 2000 8:16
Subject: Re: 1/3/2000 data
>
> Lionel,
>
> Same problem here, but the technical issue if not for Equis support. Let me
> explain.
>
> Quote Plus isn't an agreed data vendor (as ... see Downloader list). They
> even cannot buy the Write version of Equis Developer Kit. They had
> therefore to kind of reverse engineer the Equis Year2000 date encoding. It
> seems this trial/error approach was not completely successful. But this was
> to be expected.
>
> This is a commercial matter at first place. Metastock/Computrac 255 sec/dir
> was a de facto universal database standard till 31 Dec 1999. Everybody knew
> it was dead end. Equis decided to not make public their Year2000
> modifications to the format => THE STANDARD IS GONE !
>
> I don't understand the competitive advantage of playing secret games about
> a data format. It's the kind of evidence Reuters/Equis or Omega research
> won't even read, anyway.
>
> Alain.
>
> At 21:08 5/1/2000 -0600, lissen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >I am having a problem with Quotes Plus. I missed Monday's (Jan 3)
> >download. When I downloaded on Tuesday (Jan 4) one full directory was not
> >updated and one partial directory was not updated. Additionally both Jan 3
> >and 4 data was marked as 1900 instead of 2000 in the File, Open spreadsheet
> >(but in the correct position). When I opened one of the charts the data was
> >correctly shown as Jan 3 or 4 , 2000.
> >
> >I am using V 6.52
> >
> >Any suggestions on how to fix this?
> >Anyone else have this problem?
> >
> >Lionel Issen
> >lissen@xxxxxxxxx
> >
>
>
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