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Posted by Chris Murtland
Nov 14, 2008 at 05:43 AM
I think the “Eccoext” program allows for running the latest Ecco 4 off a USB drive. I remember people talking about it on the Ecco Yahoo group (the newer ecco_pro group, I believe). I’ve never tried it though.
Chris
Posted by Ken
Nov 14, 2008 at 04:30 PM
Thaks for the additional information everybody. I believe that I still have every version of Ecco at home, as I was one of the early users in 1993. As a matter of fact, one of their slaes associates came to my office to talk about the multi-user capabilities of the program (I live and work near their original Arabesque offices). I have joined the Ecco_Pro user group, but to the best of my knowledge, it is not clear that the Extension will work on a USB drive on a host machine where you have no Administrative rights. It seems that the program still writes to the Registry, although it is not clear if that is a problem if you have no Admin rights.
I guess that I am tossed between buying a netbook and loading the software that I want, and going with a USB drive and portable applications. The good news is that I do not have any pressing deadline, so I can evaluate without pressure. I am still interested in IQ, but it just seems so daunting every time I open it up. Again, I am glad to not have to make any hurried decisions.
—Ken
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Nov 14, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Ken wrote:
> I am still interested in IQ, but it just seems so daunting every time I open it up. Again, I am glad to not have to make any hurried decisions.
If you know Ecco well, you’ve got 75% of the learning curve behind you…
IQ is like Ecco + web capture, + multiple parents + equations + pivot tables + more flexible UI
Posted by Ken
Nov 14, 2008 at 07:43 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>If you know Ecco
>well, you’ve got 75% of the learning curve behind you…
>
>IQ is like Ecco + web
>capture, + multiple parents + equations + pivot tables + more flexible UI
Thank you for the reply, Pierre. I do have much of the learning curve behind me, and I have to remember that I did not learn Ecco in a day. I know this is going to sound a bit strange, but sometimes when I am in the program, I get the same feeling as I did when I tried to evaluate UR. Too many properties boxes for my brain to handle! Ecco has a kind of simple elegance, but then Ecco was not designed to do what IQ can do. Also, IMHO, Ecco has the best help files that I have ever seen written for a program. There is something about how the help files were written that made them extremely easy for me to understand what I needed to accomplish a task at hand. I should probably put a bit more time into learning IQ, as it seems to address much of what I want in a program.
—Ken
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 18, 2008 at 08:01 PM
Not an information manager exactly, but you might want to take a look at SoftMaker Office 2008, which includes TextMaker (word processor), PlanMaker (spreadsheet) and SoftMaker Presentations (I guess they didn’t want to call it PresentMaker!) and can run from an USB stick. It claims to be the most MS Office compatible suite and can run from quite modest hardware.
Alexander