Sorry, Tony, I should have been aware of your offerings. Maybe you need to charge A LOT for your product, and then people would be interested :-)
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Tony Gravagno wrote: > > From: Bob Rasmussen > > It would be conceivable, though not necessarily > > profitable, to have an Excel add-in that would pull > > data out of Pick via a network-based object call. > > Conceivable? How about Done. Phil Gerber has referred people to > NebulaXChange as the replacement for CrowFlite. > http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/2009/03/xchange-intro1.html > (Not bothering with nospam anymore...) > If nothing else, just look at the screenshots. > > That blog links back to another 2007 blog which has code showing > how to connect from Excel to any MV platform via a web service. > The takeaway here is that anyone here can have a solution for > Excel-to-U2 today, for free. > > (NebulaXChange for U2 can connect with UO.NET, mv.NET, telnet, or > SSH.) > > Not necessarily profitable? Righteo! Not in this market. Once > again, people will go for years longing for something that > already exists, the underlying theme being "it must be free". The > mentality of "free" (not related to "open source") or at least > the insistence that for some reason Pick tools need to be > "cheap", has seriously done a lot to kill innovation. It has > destroyed the motivation for developers like me to create > solutions which address common needs. NebulaXChange never went > production because of kickback on a couple hundred dollar price > tag. I might rethink that. It might seem weird to say this, but > XChange is software that just deserves to be used. > > Frustration with this market obvious? :) > > T > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > Regards, ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: [email protected] company e-mail: [email protected] voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
