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Why am I returning to DataEase? at £99.00 the product is a no brainer, however at £299 per seat vs MS-Access it is too expensive for product development and to roll-out over a large number of seats.
I have been tempted back to DataEase purely on the Amnesty offering of £99.00. Just hope I am not disappointed. I am a mature IT person who started out as a Cobol/Fortran programmer and fell in love with a product called DataMaster aka DataEase in the early 80's. Built many applications but when the consultants arrived and recommedned Microsoft Office in the organisation it killed off DataEase and it was replaced with Access which was an inferior product but it came free as part of the MS takeover.
Over the past 25 years I morphred from a programmer to systems analyst and then jumped the net into Sales / Marketing and commercial management in an International corporation before finally being dumped back into IT as data migration manager for a large SAP and Seibel project.
Got out on an early exit plan and started up my own import business but still love IT after 35+years. I abandoned DataEase with the release of 5.5 as I felt there was an anti-MS tone and a lack of simple integration with MS based products primiraly Excel and windows which severly limited the product. While most other software suppliers offered a bridge to import data dircetly from MS-Excel, DataEAse lost the plot by making integration with MS products akward and fell behind badly in this regard, ignoring the move of the major corporates to MS based platforms.
Why am I returning to DataEase? at £99.00 the product is a no brainer, however at £299 per seat vs MS-Access it is too expensive for product development and to roll-out over a large number of seats.
Hope to rekindle my development skills with DataEase and hope not to be disappointed. Wishing the team every succes in 2010.
By: John De Courcy posted: 11th January 2010 - 01:56
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rwayda mohamed at 14th January 2010 - 11:41 says:
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Gavin Spence at 19th March 2010 - 23:39 says:
Seems that old DataMaster users are still going strong. I too have written many applications in the old Datamaster and was the first person to export Pegasus Accounting packages Junior and then Senior reports into Datamaster and then Dataease for historical retention and further analysis as Pegasus would flush monthly data on period ends. I remember demonstrating how to write a simple Job Costing system in 10 minutes at the Birmingham Computer shows. (Long time ago )
I have too dallied with 5.5 and later and gave up, as it just too much hard work was not as easy to use as the old systems. I continued and stil use the old DataEase 4.5 !.
Having tried 7 lite and now bought 7.2, I may well be able to interface Dataease back into the latest Pegasus Opera II offering either on the Visual Foxpro dbf's or the SQL offering, whilst waiting for the promised .net version to materialise some time in the future....