Will there ever be a new version of Paradox?

#1

Hello all!

I have a quick question, I was wondering if Paradox is still under development,
and if we can expect to see a new version come out sometime in the future.
Does anyone know?

I've looked over the Corel website, and it's makes me wonder, there's no
mention of Paradox whatsoever on the whole website, not even in the pages
for Office X3? What gives?

Also, does anyone know what the truly latest version is? I have version
11.0.0.411

Thanks!

-Rick

#2

you have the latest version.. all development of Paradox by Corel, and the
BDE by Borland, stopped about 5 years ago.. the only difference between 10
and 11 is the SP that fixed an external XP SP2 ODBC error..

--
Steven Green - Waldorf Maryland USA

Diamond Software Group
http://www.diamondsg.com/main.htm
Paradox Support & Sales

Diamond Sports Gems
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"RickM" <spamn0t (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Hello all!

I have a quick question, I was wondering if Paradox is still under
development,
and if we can expect to see a new version come out sometime in the future.
Does anyone know?

I've looked over the Corel website, and it's makes me wonder, there's no
mention of Paradox whatsoever on the whole website, not even in the pages
for Office X3? What gives?

Also, does anyone know what the truly latest version is? I have version
11.0.0.411

Thanks!

-Rick

#3

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:26:13 -0400, Steven Green wrote:

Quote:

you have the latest version.. all development of Paradox by Corel, and the
BDE by Borland, stopped about 5 years ago.. the only difference between 10
and 11 is the SP that fixed an external XP SP2 ODBC error..

In addition, Corel has promised a service pack to resolve issues with Vista
-- but they have given no date and no details. I wouldn't bet the farm on
it. Corel has a proven track record of unreliability.

Jim Hargan

#4

Quote:

In addition, Corel has promised a service pack to resolve issues with
Vista

no, Corel has stated that they agree that an SP would be needed to make the
Vista fixes.. that doesn't mean there's gonna be an SP.. bear in mind that
all dev support staff have been gone from Corel for five years.. who exactly
is gonna fix anything?????

--
Steven Green - Waldorf Maryland USA

Diamond Software Group
http://www.diamondsg.com/main.htm
Paradox Support & Sales

Diamond Sports Gems
http://www.diamondsg.com/gemsmain.htm
Sports Memorabilia and Trading Cards

"Jim Hargan" <noJimspam (AT) omitThisHarganonline (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:26:13 -0400, Steven Green wrote:

you have the latest version.. all development of Paradox by Corel, and
the
BDE by Borland, stopped about 5 years ago.. the only difference between
10
and 11 is the SP that fixed an external XP SP2 ODBC error..

In addition, Corel has promised a service pack to resolve issues with
Vista
-- but they have given no date and no details. I wouldn't bet the farm on
it. Corel has a proven track record of unreliability.

Jim Hargan

#5

"Steven Green" <greens (AT) diamondsg (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

In addition, Corel has promised a service pack to resolve issues with
Vista

no, Corel has stated that they agree that an SP would be needed to make
the Vista fixes.. that doesn't mean there's gonna be an SP.. bear in mind
that all dev support staff have been gone from Corel for five years.. who
exactly is gonna fix anything?????

That sounds even worse than anything I had imagined. One thing I have
wondered about for some time is why no other company have bought the Paradox
right from Corel. Should be kind of cheap, I mean Corel cannot make much
money on the present product. But then, maybe no one else would want to
spend a dollar for this product. Well, there are enthusiasts out there, but
I don't even know what kind of skills it would take to develop Paradox
further, given that one had the source code. Or - how large team it would
take to modernize Paradox. For the curiosity, what is the development
platform behind Paradox? Anynone that knows?

Bjorn

#6

Quote:

wondered about for some time is why no other company have bought the
Paradox
right from Corel. Should be kind of cheap, I mean Corel cannot make much

Without it, they don't have a 'Pro' version to compete with Office.

Just bragging rights, y'understand, not to actually sell it.

--
------------------------------
Tony McGuire

#7

"Tony McGuire" <png.paradoxcommunity@com> wrote

Quote:

wondered about for some time is why no other company have bought the
Paradox
right from Corel. Should be kind of cheap, I mean Corel cannot make much

Without it, they don't have a 'Pro' version to compete with Office.

Just bragging rights, y'understand, not to actually sell it.

Money and power and seduction and lies and whatever it takes - ok, I know
how the worldly affairs bend and twist. But since I still am naive enough to
belive in poetic justice, I think Corel in due time will be returned their
tight spend gift to their loyal customers, now talking about all the Corel's
users.

Bjorn

#8

Quote:

Or - how large team it would take to modernize Paradox. For the curiosity,
what is the development
platform behind Paradox? Anynone that knows?

here we go again.. (sigh).. google the topic, and eventually you'll find
several long, long threads over the past few years.. Borland owns the BDE,
and they stopped dev work on that 5 years ago.. Corel owns distribution and
dev rights to Paradox, but Paradox is totally tied to the BDE.. so Corel
stopped, too..

as they said on Monte Python.. "that bird is dead"..

--
--
Steven Green - Waldorf Maryland USA

Diamond Software Group
http://www.diamondsg.com/main.htm
Paradox Support & Sales

Diamond Sports Gems
http://www.diamondsg.com/gemsmain.htm
Sports Memorabilia and Trading Cards

"Bjorn Sagbakken" <bjo-sag (AT) online (DOT) no> wrote

Quote:

"Steven Green" <greens (AT) diamondsg (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:4679861e (AT) pnews (DOT) thedbcommunity.com...
In addition, Corel has promised a service pack to resolve issues with
Vista

no, Corel has stated that they agree that an SP would be needed to make
the Vista fixes.. that doesn't mean there's gonna be an SP.. bear in mind
that all dev support staff have been gone from Corel for five years.. who
exactly is gonna fix anything?????

That sounds even worse than anything I had imagined. One thing I have
wondered about for some time is why no other company have bought the
Paradox right from Corel. Should be kind of cheap, I mean Corel cannot
make much money on the present product. But then, maybe no one else would
want to spend a dollar for this product. Well, there are enthusiasts out
there, but I don't even know what kind of skills it would take to develop
Paradox further, given that one had the source code. Or - how large team
it would take to modernize Paradox. For the curiosity, what is the
development platform behind Paradox? Anynone that knows?

Bjorn

#9

Steven Green wrote:

Quote:

as they said on Monte Python.. "that bird is dead"..

"He's just resting...." ;-)

Denn Santoro
President
Resource Development Associates
http://www.RDAWorldWide.Com
Offices in the United States and Germany
Providing solutions to health care, business, governments and
non-profits since 1982

#10

"Steven Green" <greens (AT) diamondsg (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Or - how large team it would take to modernize Paradox. For the
curiosity, what is the development
platform behind Paradox? Anynone that knows?

here we go again.. (sigh).. google the topic, and eventually you'll find
several long, long threads over the past few years.. Borland owns the BDE,
and they stopped dev work on that 5 years ago.. Corel owns distribution
and dev rights to Paradox, but Paradox is totally tied to the BDE.. so
Corel stopped, too..

That wasn't the question really. I know all that. Out of curiosity I wanted
to know what programming language or what development platform Borland/Corel
have used, like C++ or what. Surely not Paradox...

Bjorn