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In <332ED029.4CA0@Nworldnet.att.net>, Patrick Annette <pannette@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>meazell@ibm.net wrote:
>> 
>> In <5gjusj$1sde$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>, Dan Porter <innoval@ibm.net> writes:
>> >
>> >The OS/2 market is not strong -- but that doesn't mean it is dead. We are
>> >here to stay with Post Road Mailer and NetExtra. I hope to get back into
>> >the newsreader market (it must be affordable). 
>
>[snip]
>
>> >I know that some small minority in these newsgroups will accuse me of
>> >blatant commercialism in the newsgroups. You always do. You're right!
>> >
>> >Dan Porter
>> >InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc.
>> >innoval@ibm.net
>> >(914)835-3838
>> >
>> Dan,
>> 
>> Thanks for your steadfast support of this platform.  I see no problem with using
>> Windows revenue to fund OS/2 ventures.  Since OS/2 is way ahead of WinXX on
>> the technology curve, what you develop in OS/2 today will be what you will
>> develop in Windows tomorrow.  Good luck and keep up the good work!
>> 
>> Gerald F. Meazell
>> Dallas, Texas
>
>Innoval may be 'here to stay' for those products about as long as they
>were for their Post Road News Reader.  They stayed with PRNR as long as
>they could keep selling it, then when the complaints about how bad it
>was halted all sales and left them with nothing but complaints, they
>dropped it.  
>
>As one who was burned on PRNR, I will have to see something better than
>"I hope to get back into the newsreader market" before I will credit
>them with "steadfast support of this platform."  I will have to see them
>provide me with a usable news reader at no charge.
>
>Patrick

I also purchased the PRNR  and was annoyed to have them
drop it a few weeks later. But apart from a few minor bugs, its still usable.

IMHO If they are having the product fixed. I would suggest that they use the
Model-View-Controller concept in application design and perhaps 
extract the TCP/IP componants into its own (business) object. This should
allow increased speed and portibility for product development and allow
errors to be fixed without having to dump the entire product into another
developers lap. I would also suggest using VA/C++ & Open Class to develop
the MVC as you can develop for NT/95 and OS/2 at the same time (this is
what I do).

I do however use their mail program and think that its quite good (and am
thinking about updating to version 2.5). 

I say to Innoval, keep up the good work and I hope to see all your (hopefully
to be many) products running on Warp 6 sometime.


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