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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Losers - Taurus, Acquisition, Haitex, me
Message-ID: <19717@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Jun 89 02:00:48 GMT
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In article <1067.3.2976.1@cup.portal.com> dgg@athena.mit.edu (David G. Grubbs)
writes:

> The following may amuse or anger those unfortunate few who purchased the
> Acquisition database, but I hope it might benefit the rest of you.

[long, painful story deleted]

Boy, it makes me glad that I didn't spend the money on this one like I had
planned at one time.  I, too, was impressed by their advertising when I
first heard of Acquisition.  Just before I plunked down the cash, I
discovered that the product was copy protected.  Being of the belief that
copy protection has no business being mentioned in the same breath as
productivity software, I didn't make the purchase and instead wrote Haitex.

I got a nice letter back stating that the new release would be unprotected
(for an additional fee) and that numerous bugs would be fixed.

Then came the first AmiExpo (New York) and I had the chance to fool around
with the 'new release'.

Bah!  Well David, maybe I didn't find *70* bugs that afternoon, but I
certainly learned enough that I knew that Acquisition probably wasn't
for me.

> Are there really any relational databases, "Amigaized" or not, for the
> Amiga?

I haven't seen any.  Maybe I'm just hard to please or something.  I do
database programming professionally and I've found that the offerings
for the Amiga are a little too, well, amateur (he said, casting about
for the right descriptive term, and missing).

Please email me if you get any interesting responses.

Rick Plavnicky
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