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Posted by Lucas
Feb 26, 2019 at 08:55 PM
@washere, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Feb 26, 2019 at 09:24 PM
@Polywick Studio,
please take an advise from a fellow small independent software developer who is in the same market niche as you.
You are not doing yourself a favour acting and writing like this. As a single developer and believe me people will find out very very fast how small and credible your company is, the most important is to build trust. And remember that this postings are here to stay and google will return them for a long time. All i’ve seen so far from you is not a single sign of competence in the field of programming but instead i see a choleric reaction to (future) user feedback and narcism on the programming side (no you are not cool if you use UTF7 and DDE for program communication. This is not the 1990ths). This is not what you want.
@Bobby Parker
I do not agree with you that the data structures and the code is trivial, not more then almost any other webbased app. There are still features that are unique to old software and uncopied even if genius because they are hard to implement and to detailed for the sales guys. For Ecco it is for example the possibility of multi values in the column row. For spreadshirts like Improv (release date 1990) it is the dropping of letter-number addressed cells and pivot tables, for AskSam (1994) it is the mixing of formated fields inside normal text, for Lotus Agenda it is the automatic assigned hierachical tagging system, for Spreadsheet 2000 it is .... well the whole fucking program. I find that most SAAS web based apps are throwing us back to the 1980ths functionality but with great GUIs.
So yes a modern implemented EccoPro could have some market share, surely enough to feed a family on the phillippines.
Posted by Bobby Parker
Feb 26, 2019 at 10:49 PM
>@Bobby Parker
>I do not agree with you that the data structures and the code is
>trivial, not more then almost any other webbased app. There are still
>features that are unique to old software and uncopied even if genius
>because they are hard to implement and to detailed for the sales guys.
>For Ecco it is for example the possibility of multi values in the column
>row. For spreadshirts like Improv (release date 1990) it is the dropping
>of letter-number addressed cells and pivot tables, for AskSam (1994) it
>is the mixing of formated fields inside normal text, for Lotus Agenda it
>is the automatic assigned hierachical tagging system, for Spreadsheet
>2000 it is .... well the whole fucking program. I find that most SAAS
>web based apps are throwing us back to the 1980ths functionality but
>with great GUIs.
Sometimes you gotta take a few steps back, to go forward.
...but yes. I’m sorry to sound arrogant, or insulting, but I honestly do mean it. EccoPro is, fundamentally, a simple graph database(presented as an outliner), with (probably) an extra tree overlaid with links to the columns for the notes. It’s really *not* that complicated.
I’ve written, and used, a fair number of tools, that demonstrate all of these capabilities. In the context of the current fields of application development in which I normally work (Satellite data, retail email/ecommerce data in the hundreds of millions of records, scientific publication/journal attribution tracking(hundreds of thousands of scientific publications), 3D automated modelling & data visualization generation, data analytics, regulatory support information systems (search engines indexing *billions* of PDFs from court systems across the country),
so forth, so on), the tools & systems I use, while mostly existing server-side, are more than capable of putting anything on that list of features together at varying rates of rapidity.
TO BE HONEST, however: We exist in a time of computing, where if you can show an experienced enough developer a picture, he can design, and build for you, an application that will look and behave exactly as you want. If he can’t, you can probably find someone else. As one of these ‘experienced developers’, I find his claims to be specious, without backing evidence. That it’s taken him years to build his functionality, that’s immaterial. I’ve been working on my copy for nearly 10 years, and it’s still not out.
IF, his project is real, I will heartily applaud him. IF NOT, well…why is he wasting our time?
This is not to denigrate anyone’s effort. A lot of this is subjective, depending heavily upon the experience of: The engineer, the entire team, the engineer’s ability to lead, etc.
If it’s just one developer, it’s a lot more on that person (psychologically), to take the risk of publishing ANYTHING for use, free or paid, because they basically have to be the whole team. And while some people manage to pull that off, it’s a huge risk to almost everyone, personally, because the exposure of one’s intellectual-self in the form of software, is one of THE most dangerous things an intelligent, creative person can ever do.
All I am asking this good gentleman, is to present me with a video, that demonstrates his tools capabilities to exceed the original capabilities of EccoPro. I don’t really think that’s too hard.
Posted by Bobby Parker
Feb 26, 2019 at 10:50 PM
And just as an aside, I can reproduce EccoPro’s database functionality…using Drupal.
Posted by Polywick Studio
Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12 PM
Our business address is here on the website.
You can’t see it or are you intent on slandering us?
https://www.polywickstudio.com/contact
Our company is registered (SEC CS201802998) and you can search for it here:
https://secexpress.ph/application-form
There’s documentation on code-signing already -
https://storyserver.polywickstudio.ph/ss/security-issues.html
Please stop your lies and fabrications. You are telling nonsense.