From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 14:40:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id OAA20256 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:40:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smople.thehub.com.au (smople.thehub.com.au [203.17.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20241; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:40:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from richard@localhost) by smople.thehub.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA13871; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 08:38:02 +1000 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 08:38:01 +1000 (EST) From: Richard J Uren To: "S(pork)" cc: "Jay L. West" , questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: internet billing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, S(pork) wrote: > Please, > > Stay away from it at all costs if you have already started your > business... The billing plans are rather inflexible, it is ungodly slow > on Win95 (I think they recently came out with a "beta" version), they > release "bug-fixes" every week or so, and tech support amounted to (and > I'm not kidding) "Open up About... Help; click on each section and print > it if you would like a hard copy for your billing personnel to read..." > These people are scam artists. The worst part being that it is a simple > MSAccess runtime, but they "lock" the SQL stuff so that you can't fix > their mistakes. We had a heavy-duty SQL guru who knew what was wrong with > it, but couldn't get in to hack it into submission. Again, if you've ever > used Access and thought it slow, you will see worse performance from this > lame product. If anyone knows of any other ISP billing programs of merit, > please post over on freebsd-isp and share your experiences... > > Charles > Hey Charles, You could try Platypus. See :- www.boardtown.com We're just about to start our first montly billing cycle with it (tomorrow). The people that produce it are friendly & helpful. Ive never had an unanswered question longer than 24 hours. It uses sql server (on NT) & clients on win 95. I'll update in a month or so after our first cycle is complete if your interested. Cheers Richard