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Hello Timothy,
I used DS + Q.com and left it because of the high maintenance it
required. One thing I hated was entereing symbols into Dynastore and
making sure the Q.com symbol and TS Server symbol were synced up. Does
the e-signal version require you to input the symbols manually into
DS?
Best regards,
Jim Johnson
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 10:49:32 PM, you wrote:
TM> Carroll!
TM> You'll love this release. Honest. DS and Esignal has been utterly bugfree
TM> and carefree and the feed has really been great! I have been really
TM> pleasantly surprised, because Esignal is the antithesis of everything BMI
TM> has become.
TM> Remember, DB is writing a bunch of releases at once. And doing some neat
TM> things, as you'll see soon. The quote.com experience requires more
TM> patience and in my opinion, don't let that DS product, which is joined to a
TM> feed that has some great ideas and poor execution, color your views of the
TM> Esignal version.
TM> Best,
TM> Tim Morge
TM> 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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