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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 04:57:43 -0500
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From: Dave <dave@dbtech.net>
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At the risk of being a "me too", I have to second the comments regarding
OptiGold. We continually have problems with errors in creditcard batched
posted paymnets. We have to manually check every entry - and often find
errors. The database is indeed prone to corruption. It is also very slow.

(returning to lurk mode)
Dave

At 09:21 PM 5/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hugh Blandford wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> email addresses aside.  Has anyone looked at Optigold ISP from Digital Point
>> Solutions as an alternative over Platypus?  I would be interested in
>> comments.
>> 
>> http://www.digitalpoint.com/products/isp/
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Hugh
>I cringe at the thought of it. It's awful. It won't scale, the database
>is very easily corrupted, it lacks flexibility, and the support is
>nearly useless. 
>
>I'll spare the list my unsolicited testimonial and just say that
>Platypus justifies the NT boxen on my network.
>-- 
>Bob Martin, CTO
>InterNet Unlimited
>http://www.inu.net
>mailto:bob@inu.net
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