There have been several posts here and elsewhere recommending the
"download" product from cedarville.edu. I downloaded it at home last
night and read the pdf. It looks like something that would save me/us
considerable time and effort at work. The boss, however, is cautious.
He would feel a lot more comfortable going with a product backed by IBM
or a known reputable software house / supplier. The fact that it's free
seems to actually count against it.

The reason for the post is : If you've used the download product could
you please post a few words to summarise your experiences. If you can
provide something to establish some sort of credibility - like you work
for a national defence agancy or something - it might help me to help
my employer.

TIA,
Mike Preece.

"Mike Preece" wrote
The alternatives will doubtless turn out to be 'too expensive' where the
shareware will be 'too unreliable' and you should just invest in some nice
new stone tablets and shiny new chisels. ;-)

BFaux-

Tee Hee Tee Hee

On 5 Jan 2006 14:53:10 -0800, "Mike Preece" <michael (AT) preece (DOT) net>
wrote:

There is a DOWNLOAD "list"...

Tee Hee Tee Hee

I'm sure you and your boss'll get the answers he requires....
Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

B Faux wrote:
I have worked with numerous Datatel customers, all higher education
institutions, who rely on this product daily for a ton of production
work. It is very, very solid and quite feature rich. I also know the
author, Dr. David Rotman, quite well (and have read his disseration on
decision support systems) and know others who have helped maintain
DOWNLOAD with him (it is maintained with good business sense, not just
as one man and a machine). You get the source code, so there is little
risk. (But if your boss would like to pay me to support it for your
company ... ;-) The author often reads u2-users as do many users of
the product, so I'm sure you would have good community support. I
wholeheartedly recommend this product on UniData, where I have used it,
and would certainly expect the product to work as advertised in
UniVerse too.

I can recall no instances of DOWNLOAD being unreliable (although I'm
sure there must be some anecdotes as there are with all software -- I
just don't recall any such with DOWNLOAD).

Best wishes. --dawn

Shouldn't the download list be converted to Google so that Mike can read it
?? <G> I'll submit the request today on Mike's behalf....

No offense meant Mike, just couldn't resist it..

Regards
Simon
"Bruce Nichol" <reverse_ecurb (AT) taloncs (DOT) com.au> wrote

"dawn" wrote
Sorry Dawn for sounding semi-serious with the tablet 'n chisel crack.

I'm just amusing myself at Mike's expense - please accept my apologies
Mike - as a matter of fact, it seems lately that open source (i.e., free)
programs are more robust and clean than the shrink-wrapped pretty box
variety.

Its just the whole - "boss doesn't trust anything without three blue
letters on it" - sort of thing will never end.

BFaux-