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No doubt here: Bill's a great salesman. If it wasn't for Omega/TRAD
he'd probably be the mayor of Miami, or at least the best used car
saleman in Florida.
BW
PS. in 1991 he told me they would get the Symbol Universe right next time
around...and I believed him!
>From: "James Lillard" <lillard.main@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: BILL Cruz gives us answers #1 of several.
>Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 01:54:34 -0400
>
>Wow - I have today, met with Bill Cruz, and he spend over 30 min. giving me
>answers to every question that was e-mailed to me over the last 3 days. I
>printed out every e-mail and he read and answered them all. He was very
>candid and I will write up all the questions and Bill Cruz's answers from
>my
>many notes. But it will not happen tonight. I am just too busy to do it
>all at once. So expect several postings from me over the next few days.
>
>But, here is a little information that should please us all. The release
>that is going live on June 27, 2001 is still just a beginning release.
>While it will have direct order entry and the ability to handle futures, it
>is in no way the final product. A great many additional features will be
>added to upcoming major releases over the next many months.
>
>A few of the additional features that are to be added to futures releases
>are:
>1. Many additional months of backward historical tick data.
>2. The ability to correct bad ticks and change the data originally sent.
>3. The ability to ADD you own ASCII data and symbols.
>4. The addition of Radar Screen's features.
>5. The addition of Option Station's features.
>
>Bill Cruz did not give me a specific month that Service Pack 6 will be
>released for the 2000i series, but after a little prodding, he promised me
>that it would be out this year, probably in the late fall.
>
>The company was very quick to state that they have made a major change in
>the direction that they are going. The old Omega Research was a software
>technology company. The new TradeStation Group is a financial services
>company. In order to succeed in this new direction, many things will have
>to change. Especially the companies attitude towards their customers and
>the quality of their products, and the company understands what they must
>do
>to be successful.
>
>Please, we all will have to wait and see what happens over the next couple
>of years. But the constant bashing of the company will not help.
>
>Carefully check out TradeStation Pro with each new major release. At the
>present time I know that I cannot use the upcoming version of TradeStation
>Pro, but many others can. Within the next several releases, TradeStation
>Pro should have enough high quality features that I will be using it for
>all
>of my real time trading.
>
>Please save this posting. More to follow.
>James Lillard
>
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