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On top of all that I don't think that Omeaga Research has fixed there own
Y2K problem. If I wre you I'd give your data vendor a little call and
explain to them. If they say go fish then do so.
Brent
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> From: GREHERT@xxxxxxx
> To: RealTraders Discussion Group <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: GEN: "Y2K"
> Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 10:04 AM
>
> I just realized something yesterday when I received Worden Brother's
TC2000
> ver. 4.0 in the mail - something so monumental that it surprised me that
it
> hasn't yet been addressed in this forum. How will the "Year 2000
Problem"
> (Y2K) effect the data that you and I download and use everyday? Real
time
> data as well as end-of day. I would guess that all the data we were
receiving
> one year ago will not function 18 months from now. How many companies
have
> "fixed" the problem, I do not know, but I see that Worden Brother's
solution
> is enough to make me search for another vendor.
>
> I have been receiving 1400 stocks, indexes and mutual funds from Worden
> Brothers and have been very satisfied with their product. I receive
their
> data but do all my analysis in SuperCharts. Their data has been costing
me
> $0.99 per day (plus $0.39 when you add an additional stock).
>
> Version 4.0, which I assume fixes Y2K ( they forgot to mention this in
their
> ad or in their liturature best ) for starters costs $2.49 a day (somewhat
> surpassing our 3% inflation rate). BUT it doesn't have any mutual funds
> ("yet"). So they suggest temporarily you use version 4.0 for stocks and
3.0
> for mutual funds (yea right!). In their defense I will say that some
> fundamental data is included on each stock which you didn't get in ver.
3.0.
>
> But thats not all. The real kicker is that they have no agreement yet
with
> OmegaResearch to have SuperCharts read their new data format. So until
they
> deal with OmegaResearch, I can't use their new data in SuperCharts.
>
> So I feel like I'm holding a time bomb that will explode in 18 months.
Of
> course everything will work out, but it may be in OmegaResearch's
interest not
> to read Worden's data so they can promote their current recommended
vendor
> which may be Dial Data ... and I haven't heard such nice things about
them.
>
> Anyone who's researched other data sources, both real-time and EOD, and
how
> Y2K will effect them, please post.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jerry Rehert (grehert@xxxxxxx)
> Atlanta, GA
> @ 12:00 pm, July 2nd, 1998
>
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