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Paul On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:30:06 +0100, carey and thresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to OO but have used Smartware's integrated DB worksheet and WP > system on an AT (40mB disc) 64kB RAM since 1988, and have run a small > business from it single handed doing my own accounts tax and NI wages and > tax reconciliations bookings and automatic invoices, and maintenance > records. Your software is paralysingly opaque by comparison and trying to do > all that with a 64Mb memory and 40Gb disc is not possible with Windows XP. > Why not stop reinventing the wheel and look at Smartware. They're still > going and I'll be contacting them shortly. > > I know OO is free - but whilst the spreadsheet works and the WP seems > adequate both compare unfavourably with a 1986 product, they have no > interrelating project language and the database is impossible. You can't (as > far as I can discern) even make an arithmetic relationship between one field > and another e.g. Cost = x and sales tax =X*0.1. The example in your > literature of a database is a telephone directory. > > I suppose you get what you pay for - but really. Even a free one should be > better or at least as good as 19 year old technology. Thankfully the AT > still runs but it won't go on for ever! > > Regards Carey Saunders > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.1 - Release Date: 23/03/2005 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
