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Some corrections :
(1) Quote Plus worked at the issue during Q1 1999. Soon enough.
(2) They shared their plans, their findings during the process. Customers
were allowed to "participate" live on their product e-mail list.
(3) We, customers, and they, producer, both knew the 3 Jan 2000 would more
risky than importing ASCII data using The Equis Downloader. That
"continuity" could not be 100% assured given the competing data vendor was
not provided Year2000 format specs by Equis.
Somehow, I am afraid you didn't interpret me correctly. I must admit the
message could have been written in better english :)
The quoted response was only -
(a) The technical issue is for QP = the faulty program is the Quote Plus MS
updater,
(b) That it failed is dirty business first. QP had no other choice than a
trial/error development, given Equis policy of not sharing the Year2000
extensions publicly, altough the clinically dead old Metastock/Computrac
(00...99 for 1900...1999) was kind of a de facto standard... and its
publicity historically played in favor of Metastock IMHO.
Alain
At 01:35 7/1/2000 +0100, A.J. Maas wrote:
>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
>ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying and
>note the new address change. Also for my Homepage
>http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
>
>
>----- 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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