[cobalt-users] Xtr shortcoming

[johns@xxxxxxxxx]

 > Please feel free to add to the (growing) list...

The Admin's Virtual Site List only sorts on the first field of the Host Name,
rather than the entire name.  Thus any names which start with something common,
like "www." are not sorted.

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Also, I am severely disappointed by the version of InterBase supplied by
Cobalt.  The sales literature, under "ISP and end-user services" says that the
"XTR integrates the InterBase open-source database".  This is not true.  What
ships is a limited (Classic Server vs Super Server) version which is licensed
for only 1 user.  Sales tells me that this is a developer's version (though not
listed in the development section) and that it is not the ISP version which
Borland charges an additional $2500 for.

Is there something that I'm missing here or is this simply false advertising?

It took me a week to get this information from Sales.  This is after being
given wrong information by Tech Support who said:

  "While we are not aware of any limits or licensing restrictions, the best 
  answer to this would be obtained from the software's publisher, Borland."

It would seem that Tech Support is unaware of their own web site
(www.cobalt.com/solutions/isp/interbase.data.html) which lists "Deployment
Pricing" at the bottom of the page.  Followup messages to Tech Support about
this were ignored.

I understand that Cobalt also provides a version of Postgre.  I admit that I
not keen on it right now since it doesn't work properly on Cobalt's own web site.

John


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