Now to this I said HOOEY! First of all, I have seen the software currently
available, and it is pretty primitive, and not even fully debugged on the
Mac, I think. Plus I had heard they were dropping support for the Amiga.
Second, our original interest in the feed was to use our analysis and port-
folio product developed for another feed on theirs. I would have liked to
do that, but they were attitude was basically: we don't need your business,
you can take it elsewhere. This is what we have for software, and we are
not interested in working with any other developers. Etc... So, in the
end, we went with another satellite outfit, which charges LESS for the basic
box and if you want the full stock info package charges LESS per month.
Well, we will stay on the list, watching for a change in the situation with
X*Press. But until they have a change of heart, I suggest that the hobby
programmers DONT BOTHER WITH IT! If you want the name of the satellite
based company that we ended up using for stock info, and from whom you can
purchase a $100 developers kit, send me e-mail. I don't think it appropriate
to advertise such info directly in this forum. If someone does talk with
Mike, or someone else, and gets a different story, please document it and
report that info here. I would very much like to here that they will open
up their policy on third-party development. Since, in essence, we have a
product ready to port in short time. And, we even offered to do a dev. kit,
so I can't see them saying that is the problem.
Good luck!
Derrick Mancini
Visual Science,
Madison WI 53704
currently at: Fysikum, Uppsala University, SWEDEN
mancini@fysik.uu.se