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brian wrote:
>My personal philosophy when buying software is that as long as the package
>from the big company does what I need, then I go with that. It's what
>everybody else is buying and what will be best supported. That's why I use
>mainly MS products.
I think this "big company" argument is silly. Why? Because this logic
would imply that I should be using MS Money when I think that Intuit
Quicken is the superior product. Years ago, I should have used MS Basic
when I thought that Turbo Pascal was clearly the superior programming
language. What about Netscape Navigator...where was Mr. Bill then? Missed
the boat I think. Did you wait around for MS IE in the meantime? And on
and on it goes...
I buy whatever I need to accomplish a task now, and the hell with whether
it's going to be around in 6 months or 6 years or 6 decades. If I get
stuck with an Edsel, so be it. But until that product dies, or I kill it
<g>, or another company makes another superior product, why worry?
>My point is this: If TradeLabs gives you something that Tradestation
>doesn't then you have to take a chance and jump in. It's more risk, but
>maybe it will give you a better market edge which is definitely worth
>taking the risk.
TradeLab (no s) has far less risk now than TS because TL is Y2K compliant,
and for the next 3 million years, according to Bob Brickey. <G> And TL will
give a professional trader a superior edge. On the other hand, without
upgrades, TS dies on Dec. 31, 1999. And the Y2K patch is in the realm of
vaporware...
If someone is so worried about BB being around in the future, then I
suggest that you do as I did and do some research first. Bob's been
developing high tech software for business and US Goverment (high security
installations...nuke labs) almost forever. So I'm not too concerned about
his longevity or capitalization. Few were concerned about Gates in a
basement or Jobs in a garage a few years back <G>
-Tony Haas
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