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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: $ & Sense 4.0 Upgrade--VaporWare?
Message-ID: <4521@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 88 13:30:06 GMT
References: <585@ozvax.TEK.COM> <352@skippy.UUCP>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <352@skippy.UUCP> ras@skippy.UUCP (Bob Surtees) writes:
>From article <585@ozvax.TEK.COM>, by gregl@ozvax.TEK.COM (Greg Lacefield):
|| ...
|| And I will NEVER do business with Monogram software AGAIN.  I wish the 
|| best of luck to anybody who does.  They will need it.

|It has been some time since I have dealt with this company that I can't
|remember all of the circumstances except that, as an outcome of my experience
|with them, I vowed never to deal with ever again.  One thing I do remember
|is that a second disk, to use as a backup because the original was copy
|protected, did not arrive in the mail as promised. I did receive an empty
|package in its place.

FLAME ON!

Sounds sort of like the experience I had with ProVUE, purveyors of OverVUE.
When my order arrived, (cute little floppy with one of those little shutter
stickers (yes, intact)) I found that the disk contained not OverVUE 1.2, but
a system folder and COPY II MAC, version something-or-other.

However, in this case they CHEERFULLY sent me the right copy of their
software when I sent in the original disk.  (If they hadn't, maybe I could
have sent it to Central Point for an update? :-))

Does this perhaps have something to do with PC software houses that do
marginal ports to the Mac? :-)  Perhaps they don't seem to have enough energy
left over for the Mac business after the attention they seem to lavish over
their PC business.

PS: When OverVUE's print drivers refused to work with the latest laserwriter
drivers, and ProVUE said: "Sure it's fixed, just send in the original, plus
~$10 to cover handling.", I said "It's time to go out and buy some REAL
database software, not some hack like OverVUE."  And I did.  Anybody want to
buy an almost current version of OverVUE? :-(

FLAME OFF!

Boy, that feels better!
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."