EccoPro: Why has nobody developed a clone so far?

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Sep 22, 2007 at 01:16 AM

Mike H wrote:
>I’ve been beating on it pretty heavily. I have some views/grids which are pretty
>sparse and others which are pretty loaded up. I’ve been testing it on a workstation
>with 19” monitors, but also a Samsung Q1. I can tune SN to work well with both.
> >What I like about SN and ECCO is that you can have a lot of control over the interface. What I
>like about SN, in particular, is Pierre’s approach to try and make it useful and
>appealing to Ecco users, but also to keep an eye on modern technology. You can get data
>in and out easily because od ODBC compliance. His decision to use an HTML editor
>instead of RTF will really pay off.
> >I think if you spend some time with SN, you’ll be pretty impressed.

Thanks Mike,

And new features are coming real soon:
- Rich text in the outliner/grid
- Combo-views where multiple grids can be opened at once and tiled, docked, floated
- Live interactive charts
- Unicode text editing and UI
- Outlook style calendar including alarms and recurring events
- Live-sync with MS Outlook
- iCal sync with web calendars
- Full featured Gantt chart for project management