[Dxbase] Farewell

Fri Jul 31 13:10:36 EDT 2009

Well, many have talked privately over the past year or so fearing this 
was coming.
It shouldn't be a suprise.
Hopefully someone will be interested in buying in & continuing & 
improving the program.
I was very pleased with dx desktop by debco but it was dropped in 1999 
and we switched to dxbase upgrading every year through 2007 and have 
enjoyed the program very much.
Jack thanks for a fine program;
Hopefully someone is interested in buying & continuing the program.
73 de ke4wy jim
Sent from my iPod
On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:21 PM, "Bill Parry" <bparry at rgv.rr.com> wrote:
> I have assumed that this was coming for some time. Fortunately or 
> not, I
> still really like DXBase. Like several that have commented on this 
> product,
> I have used it since it was a DOS based product. I guess, even 
> though I
> intend to continue to use DXBase, I should begin to look around to 
> find some
> other logging program that has equivalence. I don't want to be 
> caught sort
> when the inevitable comes and DXBase won't work on some new machine 
> I buy.
>> I wonder if anyone has done any research into other logging programs 
> that
> offer similar things to DXBase. (Frankly I hope that someone decides 
> to use
> this program as a base and expand on it...I don't mind the price.) I 
> am
> expecting a switch to be an unpleasant task since I have contacts 
> stretching
> over 5 decades and many thousands of contacts. :-(
>> Bill W5VX
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> ]
> On Behalf Of Jack
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:52 AM
> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Dxbase] Farewell
>> Effective today, we have discontinued the sale of DXbase and we have 
> taken
> steps to close Scientific Solutions, Inc. For many months, we have 
> studied
> the prospects of further development work on DXbase. We have 
> studied your
> answers to surveys, private emails, reflector posts, and telephone 
> calls.
> It became clear to us that DXbase 2007 already provides nearly all 
> of the
> capabilities that the vast majority of our customers want. 
> Therefore it
> would be unlikely that we could improve enough on DXbase to warrant 
> upgrades
>> in the near future.
>> So after many many years, we have come to the end. We appreciate the
> loyalty that we have been given by so many of you and we wish you 
> success in
>> your ham activities. We've made a ton of friendships over the years 
> and we
> are grateful to have been given that opportunity. We will of course 
> remain
> active in ham radio and will no doubt see many of you again.
>> We have been accepting offers for the purchase of all rights 
> associated with
>> DXbase source code and will continue to accept offers for another 
> ten days
> or so. If a deal is reached with anyone, you'll hear about it from 
> them.
> Since our DXbase email address will be shut down shortly, we will be
> accepting offers at a temporary email address aa4lu123 at yahoo.com.
>> Best wishes and thanks for your support,
> Jack
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