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Here's something that might be of interest for certain members
of this list. It looks likely that I'll be a customer of Omega's
Y2K patch for version 4.0 :-(
>From: janette.perez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:24:12 -0500
>To: andyk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Year 2000 Compliance/Security Issues
>
>Dear Mr. Kalnozols,
>
>Thank you for responding to my posts. I apologize for responding at such a
>late date, but I have been out of the office attending trade shows.
>
>I cannot confirm that FutureSource will be available on 5.0. At this time,
>Omega Research has confirmed that Signal, Signal-Online, and BMI will be
>available for the initial release. We are endeavoring to make available
other
>data sources to you by working towards an open API platform.
>
>Regards,.
>
>Janette Perez
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MIME :andyk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 1998 3:31 PM
>To: Janette Perez
>Subject: Re: Year 2000 Compliance/Security Issues
>
>Dear Janette:
>
>Thank you for your postings to 'omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx'. Information about
>Omega's plans is always nice to have when one's livelihood depends on your
>products. Also, it's nice to see you persevere despite the emotional
>responses that you must undoubtedly receive from certain members of the
>mailing list.
>
>My #1 concern is that Tradestation v5.0 still support FutureSource as a
>data feed. I do not want to repeat my disappointing experience with
>Optionstation when FutureSource was discontinued as a data feed.
>
>Second, I get tick data from Genesis Financial Data Services. I have
>talked to Genesis technical support and they indicated that the
>new version of Tradestation might be able to directly read their new
>format for storing tick data. Please incorporate their algorithm into
>your products to relieve users of the necessity of having to first
>convert the tick data into ASCII format.
>
>Finally, concerning your new security scheme, it is IMPERATIVE that
>you make it user-friendly to the following real-world situations:
>
> 1. Hardware (CPU, motherboard, disk, etc.) replacements that occur
> via a planned upgrade or an unplanned failure.
>
> 2. A user who uses a disk utility such a data compression or who
> periodically defragments his disk should NOT have to be afraid
> that such actions will destroy your security mechanism.
>
> 3. For an extra charge, a user should be able to install Tradestation
> on a laptop computer such that all real-time aspects of the data
> server are disabled. In other words, a strictly off-line version
> of Tradestation to help traders develop better tools no matter
> where they happen to be. If you establish a fair price for this,
> you will realize more revenue as opposed to attempts at squeezing
> additional full-price copies of Tradestation from customers who do
> not need its full functionality.
>
>Thanks for your time and consideration.
>
>Andris Kalnozols
>andyk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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