Does anyone actually use MyBase, if so any view on it, issues, technical support etc.

Thanks,

Graham

I used to use MyBase fairly extensively up to three years ago, when I was the publications director for a college. I liked it because I could put together electronic catalogs of the many permutations of our curricula, and then could distribute them to offices around campus becuase MyBase allows you to create run-time data-structures. For this task, a tree-based information manager was perfect, and MyBase is a good choice. It has been a few years since I used MyBase, but it hasn't received many upgrades during that time -- though it sounds as if one is in the works. I stopped using it because I didn't have that same need after leaving my job at the college. Also, I found MyBase a little quirky when it came to handling formatting of text -- I don't recall the exact problems, but I believe they involved a clunkiness to the operation of changing fonts and styles that was slow and cumbersome. The other thing that I didn't like so much about MyBase is its reliance on Plug-Ins for a lot of its functionality. Plug-Ins sound like a good idea, but when you need half a dozen or more to get full function from a program, it begins to become somewhat confusing to make sure you keep them up to date. In addition, some of the more useful ones -- specifically, the one that allows download and storage of web pages -- you have to pay for. In my opinion, Ultra Recall and MyInfo are both stronger programs.

Steve Z.