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Anada:
I think that the upgrade offer for $800.oo was actually for the RT Pro
version. The original information was poorly worded and unclear.
What has happened to Equis is always happening to small innovative
companies. Briefly, when an innovative company reaches a certain size it
becomes a bureaucracy which by definition is administrative and not
creative. Large companies remain creative by buying up newer small creative
companies. In this case, for Reuters, Equis provided a new product that
could serve as a lead in to sell their data. We now have the results of the
bureaucratic pressures on Equis; slowness to change, resistance to users
concerns, delays in correcting problems.
Equis should be developing a completely new program that incorporates all
the features that work well in metastock plus the features that users have
been requesting.
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Ananda P. Bhaumik <abhaumik@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrade to MetaStock 7?
> Dear list members
> How come CMA got an offer for USd 115 and I got an offer for only Usd 59?
> I wrote to Equis to explain but have not received a reply yet.
> I have been a registered user of MS since version 1.0 and I agree that the
> DOS version upto 4.0 (I skipped 4.5 and upgraded to the next version) was
> great. But I like 6.52 too.
> What I do not understand is that I was given an offer to upgrade for 800
> odd Dollars late last year and then now it is USd 59.
> Has Equis gone mad or is it the business practice of Reuters.
> Equis under Achelis was as great company. If he is listening and he is
> still in charge let him not get swayed by the business practices of the
big
> boys. They do not always know what is the best and what is right.
> Reuters had tried very hard to dislodge Teletrac from the financial
> institution trading rooms for many years with their product developed out
> of Australia (I forget the name). They used to have heavy promotions and
> give it away free. It did not work. I have seen MS RT running on Reuters.
> It is ag ood product though I must say that their formula language still
> does not have the power of Supercharts and the ease of Snap/Computrac now
> known as Smartrader.
> Coming back to the original issue, if Equis is listening, please let us
> know why this discriminatory practice in pricing?
> .
> At 01:01 PM 5/13/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Just got the flyer for MS 7 upgrade for $115 including $15 shipping (who
are
> >they kidding, shipping is at most $4)
> > The only major difference I can find between version 7 and 6.5 is the
> > Data On
> >Demand.
> > Also I hardly ever used version 6.5 as only version 4.5 has the macros.
> >Equis never figured out how to put the macros back into the product after
> >version 4.5.
> >Equis added bells and whistles but took out the basic essentials like
AutoRun
> >Macros, so the program got bigger and less useful.
> > The flyer also implies you have to get data from Reuters Datalink and
> > pay for
> >it after a month. So what is the point of Data on Demand if you have to
> >pay for
> >the data on an ongoing basis.
> >Is the data really on demand or do you have to maintain a paid
subscription
> >forever to keep the data "on demand?" Equis purposely leaves that unclear
in
> >the flyer.
> > CMA
> >
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