Vista Software (Apollo) using UCE?

[Dave Pearson]

Has anyone else received an item of UCE (unsolicited commercial email) from
Vista Software in the last few hours (Subject "Vista Webletter: March
2000")? I've never knowingly had any dealings with this company and have
never registered my "normal" email address with them (when I register with
companies I always register a tailored email address so I know who is
passing my details around) so it would appear that someone, either at that
company or on their behalf, is operating an opt-out list.

I notice that the email is urging people to help Apollo win some magazine's
poll, I wonder if this is the reason that someone has been increasing the
subscriber base of this "webletter"?

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[allen wilson]

I got one too, actully two, one to each of my email addresses.
(Don't know where they got my home email from! )

Do not vote for them!!! They LOCK the indexes everytime
you do a skip. If you run multiuser to a network it is HELL
to pay with corrupted files all the time. I spent a HUGE amount of
money in development with their tool and boy did I get screwed!
Had to scrap it all and use Advantage.

Allen

[Dave Pearson]

* allen wilson <al...@clinlabinc.com>:

> I got one too, actully two, one to each of my email addresses. (Don't know
> where they got my home email from! )
>

> Do not vote for them!!! [SNIP]

I do my best to not do business with people who use opt-out lists to mail
out UCE (and UCE that has bogus subjects), I'm not very likely to vote for
them.

It's a shame how many "credible" people in the Clipper/Xbase community seem
to think that I should have to pay for their marketing. There's been a long
line of them over the years that I've been posting here.

[Marc]

Alen,

Could you please explain this problem with the index locking?
I thought all the CDX drivers - including Advatage - do this.
Exactly how did it stop you?

-Marc-

[dcuffee]

Advantage is totally the way to go for a Clipper backend.
ADS is also pretty impressive in windows development as well. There
StreamlineSQL is not perfect, but way better than most of the competition.

"allen wilson" <al...@clinlabinc.com> wrote in message
news:3C90C688...@clinlabinc.com...

[Al Acker]

>>
Advantage is totally the way to go for a Clipper backend.
ADS is also pretty impressive in windows development as well. There
StreamlineSQL is not perfect, but way better than most of the competition.
>>

I'd like to review the Apollo server vx the Advantage server. We're in the
midst of doing an internet based system and we may have a chance to try
Apollo out.... if we do, we're review both, I can post the results here.
And we'll publish a detailed report also.

Al
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