Infoselect 9 Preliminary Version

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 8, 2006 at 12:51 PM

Dominik, I have a cynical answer to the question of why it is so pricey: Because they can get away with it. I believe that Micrologic built up sufficient customer base, starting with the days when the product was callled Tornado and continuing on with corporate sales of InfoSelect, that there is no worry about the competition.

Unfortunately, if you read the InfoSelect Yahoo group, posters—even long-time loay users—make it clear that Micrologic also has no worry about customer service. It is perhaps the most arrogant and unresponsive of any software company.

The really sad thing is that many IS users appear to be unaware of how many alternatives there are in the marketplace.

Having said that, IS 9 does look interesting, but it seems not to be the extensive revision of the product that was being rumored some months ago.

Daly

Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>Wojciech,
>I haven’t found a trial download either. To give InfoSelect a try you have
>to buy a licence. I would suggest to buy the yearly subscription. If you don’t want to
>use the software after your testing period you can kindly ask the developers for a
>refund.
>You ask: ‘Why it is so expensive?’ - this is exactly my question! I really
>don’t know why and my imrpession is that InfoSelect is overpriced even I know how
>complex and time consuming it is to develop software.
>I won’t buy or test IS now
>because I am satisfied with my current software portfolio (ADM, Word, Excel,
>ProjectCards) and I don’t want to add another piece of software to just make my life
>more difficult. But I am very interested to hear from other users about their
>experiences using IS 9. The SmartFolder concept and the context tabs are very
>promising.
>But my overall question is: When do the developer of InfoSelect hire an
>interface designer?
> >All the best,
>Dominik
>