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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 13, 2008 at 09:47 PM
Jan, this business with Kinook is all too familiar, and sad.
These guys may be good with the technical side but they lack basic communication skills (to wit the help files and, now, this fiasco around stopping/freezing development and deleting you from the forums). I am glad you are back on the forums, but if I were you, I would look for alternatives.
Cheers,
Daly
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Nov 14, 2008 at 01:50 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Jan, this business with Kinook is all too familiar, and sad.
>
>[snip] I am glad you are back on the forums, but if I were you, I would look for
>alternatives.[/snip]
I am & I ‘m sure I’m not alone. I think they really stuck their foot in their mouth; talk about being un-communicative.
IMO, the real unfortunate thing is they had come so far & were so close…. and no matter the density of the help file & the program itself, much like ADM, once learned, it was/is hard to put away let alone find something better.
SQLnotes/IQcube definitely has possibilities but, again, a lone developer, albeit one who is responsive & very helpful, clearly brilliant & steady in terms of development. The only saving grace is he seems to have a different business model which I hope works for him. If that is successful he may well be able to support his product much as the fellow who developed IDImager, probably the best DAM in the business has managed to accomplish in a very crowded market.
And speaking of ADM, I see they have now changed their ID/pw on their d/l site so I guess they are no longer welcoming users to try it out. What a shame.
Thanks, Daly. Hope all is well in your sliver of the world.
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield CT USA
Posted by Cassius
Nov 14, 2008 at 04:24 AM
I would not be surprised if UR’s suspension may be do to the economic crisis. For example, it is possible that Kinook’s backers stopped or slowed funding or Kinook felt that people would cut back on purchasing software. As an example, the company my son worked for, until Friday, had a “secure” $400 million line of credit which disappeared and thus so did the company.
-c