RE: [cobalt-users] Xtr shortcoming

["Todd Kirk" <tkirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree John, quite disappointed with the Interbase install, and also very
disappointed with my distributor for not telling me its unsupported by
Borland, its beta s/w and there are next to no GUI windows clients that
actually work with it.

When I was making enquiries prior to purchasing, my disty was supposed to
setup a script so when the DSN in my RAQ4r GUI is setup it creates the
database, and we simply connect to it via Easysoft ODBC, Yeah as if that
ever happened. So now I get to create the databases myself, then the RAQ
DSN, then go to a GUI (still yet to find a stable one that works with
Classic version)....man the main reason we bought the RAQ was for
ASP/database work.

Oh and the disty told me the test button in the RAQ DSN GUI would never
work, a lot he knows, I had that working inside a day doing it manually...



regards,

Todd Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of johns@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 9:14 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] Xtr shortcoming


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

The Admin's Virtual Site List only sorts on the first field of the Host
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rather than the entire name.  Thus any names which start with something
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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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