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Carroll!
You'll love this release. Honest. DS and Esignal has been utterly bugfree
and carefree and the feed has really been great! I have been really
pleasantly surprised, because Esignal is the antithesis of everything BMI
has become.
Remember, DB is writing a bunch of releases at once. And doing some neat
things, as you'll see soon. The quote.com experience requires more
patience and in my opinion, don't let that DS product, which is joined to a
feed that has some great ideas and poor execution, color your views of the
Esignal version.
Best,
Tim Morge
At 05:14 PM 4/11/01 -0700, Carroll Slemaker wrote:
>The first question which popped into my mind also was Why does this package
>require such intensive support? It ought to be completely transparent, as
>is stated on their Web site. If it is highly temperamental and barfs at the
>slightest excuse or irregularity, I would be very reluctant to place my
>trust in it (I don't have the resources to maintain two separate
>hardware/software systems with a separate subscription to a different
>service as a backup).
>
>I'm also uneasy with a year-to-year subscription plan if the software
>contains built-in code which periodically renders it useless until
>revalidated with a special password from the vendor. I don't mind paying an
>annual fee for support/updates, but I DO NOT like the risk of suddenly
>losing my trading platform because the vendor happens to go belly-up.
>
>I'm currently using TS4 with BMI/cable and, based upon things I've read on
>this list in the past, I've been eagerly looking forward to this DS Lite
>release. But what I'm reading now is causing me serious doubts. I would
>greatly appreciate hearing from any of you who can either (1) allay my fears
>about Dynastore, or (2) confirm that I should start planning for a different
>system than TS4/DSLite/eSignal.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
> > First question is why it needs such a high support level? I tried DS with
> > TS4 and found it to be such a pain I gave up and went with plain vanilla
> > TS2Ki and DTN satellite (not the best solution, but better than a patch
> > work). It simply wasn't worth all the trouble of trying to keep all the
> > fragile pieces working together. While its true $240 isn't much, if I paid
> > that for all the software I run...well, you get the idea.
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