Re: Does anyone actually use Discoverer 2000 (Dataquery)?

In article dated Sun, 18 Feb 1996 16:18:56 GMT, Robert Jones (rjj_at_dryland.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Mark Citron <mark_at_usc.edu> wrote:
> >This seems to be a product that had the right idea (matrix reports for
> >example) but the implementation was so poor that it has been impossible
> >for us to use it in a production enviornment. This product should
> >never have been released. You are guaranteed a GPF in every session.
> >Anything but the simplest reports with the most basic test data seems to
> >be impossible. After hours on the phone with support (with no solutions
> >except to simplify our queries) we have about given up on it.
>
> I agree - putting Discoverer/2000 under f45 runtime was a BIG mistake
> - the application is a joke - it looks terrible and I had an unhandled
> exception the first time I ran it. We would get shot if we released
> forms which were so flaky.

My employer has Dataquery V4.5.something. The general consensus of opinion, amongst the users who have tried it, is that it is unusable. This was both the Administrator and End user versions.

We are awaiting the next version supposedly being rewritten in C++.

This was tested on Pentium 75, Pentium 90 and 486 machines with 16M or 32M of RAM under Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95.

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