|You can judge a software program by the amount of
|purchases and users it has. Capitalism, my friends.
I think that's a better indicator of how well a company marketing plan works.
| Corel doesn't even have a training progam for its
| product. I know because i looked and looked. The old
| timers seem to be the only apologists for the product. A
| newby to that software can't get trained.
After Microsoft "borrowed" some of the best ideas presented in Paradox and incorporated them into Access they then started bundling the product with MS Office, the de facto standard in office productivity software. The price difference was small and Microsoft's marketing team made sure the blurbs for Access made it sound just as good as Paradox even though it still isn't as good or as robust.
| I don't blame Corel for bad programmers, I blame them for
| a bad program and a lack of training opportunity. I took
| both the basic and advanced online courses for Paradox
| (there weren't any live ones in Chicago, Indianapolis,
| St. Louis, or Cincinnati. Only New York and New Orleans)
Actually you learn more here asking practical questions than you would in a course that lasted two weeks at eight hours a day... no matter what that course was called or addressed.
| Also, most people have never heard of Corel. Bad
| marketing, bad sales, no training = bad product.
Borland did know how to market it. In my opinion Borland lost a great deal of it's momentum when Philip Kaan left.
| You guys may be right about it being thorough and all
| that but you've been programming it in for years. Ask a
| newbie to do even basic things in it and its incredibly
| difficult to even find out how, let alone actually doing
| it.
And ask an Access programmer, no matter the level of experience, to program for 50 plus users and you'll get a blank stare. Access just does not have the horsepower required to support more than a dozen or so users.
| I say this with experience in HTML, Coldfusion, Access,
| and SQL Server.
And I say this with 25 plus years of experience in creating, maintaining, and developing systems that do what the client wants and WORK!!!
