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From: bmartin@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Is anybody using 4th Right?
Summary: Don't buy--they don't honor their guarantee.
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Date: 23 Jun 91 12:32:08 GMT
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In article <1828@crl.LABS.TEK.COM> chrish@crl.LABS.TEK.COM (Chris Hubbard) writes:
>
>Digital Concepts in Portland makes a tool for 4th Dimension called 4th Right.
>Is there anybody on the net how is using this product and can give a
>testimonial on this product.
>
>I called them and they said it has 600 procedures for 4th Dimension and the
>environment runs on top of 4th Dimensions.
>
>Has anybody had any contact with Digital Concepts( i.e. any problems or
>good reports).  Any reply would be appreciated.

I bought the package in December 1990. I found it to be far less than
what I had expected based on their marketing docs, and it was indeed
useless for the project that I had hoped to use it for. The problem I
ran into was that 4th Right had a lot of user interface manipulation
tools, but no decent data dictionary tools, which really should lie at
the core of any database development system. I ended up writing my own
development shell.

One of the reasons I bought 4th Right was that it came with a 30-day
money back guarantee. I returned it, but they never sent my refund.
They never returned my phone calls, although they did respond to one of
my e-mail letters, saying that my refund was "being processed". This
was back in April. Five months after returning the product, I still
have no refund in hand.

Brian K. Martin, M.D.
bmartin@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu