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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2870)	12/3/1998 1:02:00 AM
From: esecurities(tm)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4231

Airbus, 747... Message Board... Airbus Headline:Quality Control Message #:00027877 Posted on:11/15/1998 at 16:10:46 Author:Ed Hetzler (ehetzler@shore.net) I have been buying software for years and it is not often I get taken advantage of, but I blew it on this one. This is with out a doubt the worst software package I have seen in years. The advertising on the box is very misleading. I thought there were panels with this. However, what really irks me about this is the poor quality of the flight models and the poor quality of the aircraft textures. This is not a Flight Simulator 98 quality add on. The planes look like Flight Simulator 5 models. The one bright spot was the Toulouse scenery. Blagnac airport is very nice. If the rest of the package had been as well done as this I would have been more than pleased with it. You need a new quality control manager. Headline:Quality Control Message #:00030745 in reply to: 00028490 Posted on:11/15/1998 at 16:10:45 Author: I agree this product was pathetic and should be recalled to fix. This is the worst addon ever for fs98! 747 Headline:Patches needed, not excuses Message #:00026499 Posted on:11/04/1998 at 20:11:46 Author:Joe If Alpha Software doesn't start fixing all of these software problems with patches, then you will earn a bad reputation and eventually go out of business. Stop blaming everything on FS98. If the software you are designing cannot be made fully compatible with FS98, then don't release it in the first place. In one of your replies to a question regarding switching aircraft panels, you told the guy you had no idea how to do it. Come on! You call yourselves "Alpha Tech"? Are you guys programmers or do you just answer the phones? Joe Headline:Another Installation Failure Message #:00029913 in reply to: 00026499 Posted on:11/04/1998 at 20:11:46 Author:Dave Sprague (airbuff@msn.com) Another installation failure! FS98 is installed and working fine, but every time I try to load 747 I get one of those cryptic, screwey Microsoft messages that tells me nothing. Why can't I load 747 - please tell me in layman's language. Oh, yes, I have downloaded your patch that came out in February. 'Still won't work. Who do I need to contact to get a refund of the $25 I paid for this worthless flightsim? ...the message boards also appear to have been sanitized of many messages...

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2870)	12/4/1998 1:52:00 AM
From: esecurities(tm)	Respond to of 4231

"Databases Attract Rank & File" "...Mainstream audiences are gravitating toward database software, once the domain of programmers and other technology enthusiasts. Recent advances in ease of use and a de-emphasis on programmability are making the category more accessible to average users..." source: &copy [2/98] Computer Retail Week techweb.com note: this article is from early 1998 which makes the [market share] implications of Alpha Five Version 4 even more compelling...but then there is Richard and Selwyn 'Death Wish/Legends in their own Minds' Rabins...the fact Alpha does not exhibit at trade shows...the fact Alpha has simply never understood that there is more to marketing than typesetting the word on a business card...