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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: PRO-C
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Date: 27 May 90 15:10:20 GMT
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In article <30221@cup.portal.com> Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison) writes:
>Beware!  I too was looking at this package; but Vestronix is radically
>altering their terms and instead of about 500 and no royalties, etc.
>they've gone to some crazy scheme costing over 2000 per month for 18
>months, etc. (With lots of great "services" included, etc.)
>
>From my discussions with them, I dropped the package like a hot potato!
>
>Anyone want a almost new copy of Pro-C for DOS?

'Hot potato' is an understatement. After they set up an arrangement with Raima 
to use the db_VISTA database as a backend to their code generator, they 
inexplicably changed the deal after getting a lot of inquiries from Vista's 
mailings. All of a sudden they were forcing gargantuan support fees onto 
anybody who wanted to use PRO-C.

Our attempts at explaining a needless support requirement were met with 
condescending statements as to how we don't really know how difficult it is to 
write in C etc. etc.  I basically told them to go to hell and stick their damn 
package where the sun ...

We'll see how long they survive.
fred


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