[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Omega Abandons TS2000i


  • To: "Patrick" <vibri@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Omega Abandons TS2000i
  • From: Ullrich Fischer <uf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:17:20 -0800
  • In-reply-to: <002e01bf60c1$203d34e0$cddafea9@xxxxxx>

PureBytes Links

Trading Reference Links

I agree, Patrick.  Now, who knows a lawyer willing to take on the class 
action suit?  -uf

At 02:01 AM 1/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Omega List,
>
>MY OPINION ON WHAT IS HAPPENING AT O.R.:
>I didn't put 2 and 2 together after Omega Research purchased WOW and again I
>didn't put it together after they publicly announced they were abandoning
>SuperCharts2000.  But finally I have put all the pieces together.  Omega
>Research is now preparing to abandon TradeStation2000i in exchange for
>TradeStation.com.  Omega Research will still sell TradeStation2000i until
>they see how customers respond to TradeStation.com, and if it is successful
>TradeStation2000i will be dropped.  The people who run Omega Research have
>come to the conclusion that their company will not increase in value if they
>remain a standard software company because they can not get their flagship
>program working properly.  Their only hope is to abandon the standard
>run-on-the-customers-PC-software and go with Internet software.  Without
>this change OR stock will stay low and slow.
>
>
>WHAT THIS MEANS FOR TS2000 USERS:
>As we have all seen in the past, upgrades and new features prevent new
>versions of EasyLanguage code from working with the old version of
>TradeStation.  This means we will still be making payments for TS2000i which
>is made obsolete by the changes in the EasyLanguage code used with
>TradeStation.com.  How long before TradeStation.com EasyLanguage code is not
>longer compatible with TS2000i? Right from the start, six months, one year?
>Who knows.  *******Are we going to be making payments for TradeStation2000i
>and monthly payments for TradeStation.com at the same time?*******  The fact
>that OR is switching to TradeStation.com so fast after the release of
>TradeStation2000i is starting to make me feel screwed and I am probably one
>of Omega Research's most loyal admirers.
>
>
>
>My venting for the year
>Patrick.
>
>