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Mark
In addition to the bugs, what about the overall quality of Omega in general?
Just look at the user's manual. Not the content of it (which has always
been mediocre), I'm talking about the actual manual itself. Do you remember
the manual you received with TS2? It came in a very professional hard-bound
mini-notebook with a three-ring metal binder. This made it not only easy to
keep it opened to a certain page, but allowed you to remove important pages
to keep them right next to your computer. It was exactly what you'd expect
with a $2,500 program.
With TS3 came a soft-bound manual with a plastic spiral binder. You could
easily keep it open, but removing pages was no longer possible. By the time
TS4 came along, the manual had degraded to a flimsy cover that ripped after
a week and a cheap paper binder that you have to put a brick on top of to
keep open.
Trivial? Yes, but also indicative of the decline at Omega. Keep up the
pressure Mark until we get our metal binder manuals back!
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brown <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: John Sweeney S&C <JSweeney@xxxxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 3:14 PM
Subject: More: TASAC and TradeStation
>Wake up and smell the coffee. There are a few of us who have dealt with
>Omega a long time and even helped Phil put together the list of bugs. This
>is not bashing. It is the truth. Just because you haven't discovered
>that system results are not reproducable realtime or that the server loses
>ticks doesn't mean others haven't found this out. Pride goeth before a
>fall and some of us are just waiting for Omega to fall.
>
>You might be a little more sensitive if your livelihood depended on
>software like this. How about permanent passwords that are not permanent?
>Serious traders have developed their own software. One theory is that the
>installed database is largely served by DBC and now that DBC is on the
>Board of Omega it is just a matter of time before DBC buys them. There
>goes customer service.
>
>My gripe goes back to 1991 when I was promised all of the features of the
>DOS product, System Writer Plus in the Windows version. We are still not
>there. It is really horrifying to think that this program still doesnot
>have all of the features of a program last updated in 1987!
>
>BTW, you might want to ask yourself how far the fraud goes. Can you tell
>me how Tradestation\DTN wins the award from TASC for best institutional
>trading software when it wasn't even available at the time of the survey?
>You couldn't even buy\lease it from DTN. I tried! Advertizing revenue can
>work wonders!
>
>
>Charles Kaucher
>
>You don't practice watching your opponent.
>You practice hitting your shots.
>-- Stuart Appleby
>Winner of the 1997 Honda Golf Classic
>
>
>
>I have had the full list mentioned by
>>>Pierre (now a couple of years old) but let's get current. Where are the
>>>problems?
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>John Sweeney, Tech. Editor Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities
>>>Technical Analysis, Inc. The Traders' Magazine
>>>4757 California Ave. S.W. Phone: 206 938-0570 Fax: 206 938-1307
>>>Seattle, WA 98116-4499 USA Web: http://www.traders.com/
>>>____________________________________________________________________
>>>Contents may not reflect official opinion of Technical Analysis, Inc.
>>>
>>>
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