Guus, Udo lives in Spain. I contacted him last night again to take over the site. I've been trying this for years ;-)
Regards Gerard 2017-03-03 9:29 GMT+01:00 Guus Wiselius <[email protected]>: > I'm offering to revive dataperfect.nl > I live in .nl so I could visit Udo to help. > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > > Op 2 mrt. 2017 om 19:28 heeft Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED < > [email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > > Hello Bruce, hoe ben jij Geert, > > > > Thank you for the reply but I was able to download the utility files from > another link courtesy of Rich. > > I was only thinking of the DP Order but the other utility files especially > the DPDiag proved to be even more helpful. > > I am still amazed that even after all these decades I have yet to find a > “modern” database application comparable to the power, flexibility and ease > of design of DataPerfect. And believe me I tried. Some years ago I was > involved in a project to create a custom designed order processing system. > DP was out of the question because it was first and foremost a dinosaur of > a DOS based program. The direction the company took was MSSQL. The > company spent several months and over $200K and ended up with a product > that did not truly fulfill many of the original objectives. The > programmers insisted what I wanted was practically almost AI level of > intuition. Here I am today using DP and achieving many of the objectives I > wanted back then and not spending ridiculous amounts of money and time to > do so. But to be frank, DP would probably be useless to me today without > Jos Schaars’ VDOS adaptation, as well as Tim Rude’s DPSpool. It is truly a > shame that WP did not continue to develop and better market this product. > Eventually moving on to a newer product would likely happen someday, but > not today. > > > > I too miss the dataperfect.nl site but I don’t know if Udo is still > maintaining it. Brian Hancock mentioned a while back that he hasn’t been > getting emails from it anymore. > > > > Thank you to all those who still supports DP. > > > > Best to all, > > Ed. > > > > > > > > > > *From:* Dataperf [mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Bruce Conrad > *Sent:* Thursday, March 02, 2017 8:52 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* DataPerfect Users Discussion Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Dataperf] DP Utilities > > > > Unfortunately, all of the files that were once hosted on the sanbachs.net > compusofl site were lost many years ago when I switched internet providers. > I haven't taken down the compusofl site because it might have some > historical interest. However, the download section is basically empty. I > regret the loss of those files, and also miss the dataperfect.nl site, > upon which I used to rely. Does anyone know if it will become operational > again? > > > > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > > > dataperfect.nl seems to be down, indeed... > > You may try Bruce Conrad's site: http://www.sanbachs.net/ > compusofl/download.html > > Please note: the links are password-protected! > "If you have any problems downloading from this page or the FTP sites, > please contact me, Bruce Conrad, and I will make every attempt to make > these files available for you."... > > > > Regards, > > > > Geert > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:33:48 +0100, Ed Marfil, MU <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Does any one know where I can download the DP Utilities like DPORDER, > etc? The links in the DP website no longer works. > > > > Thanks. > > Ed. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > >
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