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Its a sad thing when technology takes a step backwards and is more difficult as time goes by.Thats what Jim is speaking about when he disses Sandicor. Tempo 3, the previous version, was a better program. This is caused by a bloated beauracracy that is out of control. They hit the realtors when things get tough. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Thanks for the support Jeff.

I was going to add the actual print-out from Sandicor, but my blog host pulled the same trick today - changing the entire behind-the-scene format, and botching the job, even though there was nothing wrong with the previous one.

These software guys must be GREAT salesmen.

"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
very long pause….
"Java."

All kidding aside Ray Ewing is probably under pressure to make things work and he's just trying to defend the development choices and contractor choices he made. It wouldn't matter if the program you're having problems with crashed every time a user looked at it. When you're the manager and your job is on the line you'd be amazed at how dense people can become.

In the long run people should never have to be trained to use a software solution. It should be reasonably easy to use and work with out of the box. If you spend more time learning how to use a tool than it would have taken to perform a task without the tool how helpful is it?

If Ray had just a touch of humility in his approach, we wouldn't be talking about it.

But him pointing me out personally to others is below the belt. He should go back to fixing problems, instead of bad-mouthing me.

Ray's job isn't to state the facts. Ray's job is to spin. Ray's job depends on Ray's ability to spin. So, Ray is spinning. See Ray spin. Spin, Ray, spin!

Hey Jim. Maybe you should get the Tempo 5 instructional disc from that bald guy on late night TV. You know, the "Video Professer."

I'd prefer to get it from the curvy woman who hawks the language tapes.

Ray Ewing = Nick Burns

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=33695569

Open Source is the only way to go! Why do you think most self hosted blogs use wordpress?

Maybe because it works.

All it takes is one MLS system to go open source and the game is up, IMO.

Chuck Ponzi

BTW, Shadash,

I disagree with you. There are plenty of apps that are perfectly reasonable that take substantial training to do well... such as dreamweaver, SAS, and Photoshop to name a few. Many just have a lot of features that are not intuitive to the uninitiated. The problem is that this is a webapp, and it is not that complex. How hard can it be to get a list of properties? Pretty hard, if you ask Ray.

Chuck

Did I mention that the new MLS is still PC only? That's right, if you have an Apple/Mac/I-phone, too bad.

okay, for a computer geek like myself, that java joke was pretty funny :).

Hmmm, open source MLS... okay it's time to start my next company.

Like doctors and lawyers there are good and bad programmers. Let's just say the good ones don't work on real estate software or cash registers. Which coincidentally have exceptionally high failure rates.

This month, I've seen 5 places lose the ability to process purchases on all their cash registers due to a software glitch. A Rite-Aid, the Horton Plaza parking gate, a restaurant, etc..

Ray is corrupt if he is the one who was responsible for this temp 5 mess. No one in their right mind would agressively move towards this software unless they were paid off. Also the lockbox debacle is I presume a RAY thing too, because its much better to have a bulkier lockbox then a nice smaller one that works better? OH by the way, we supposedley voted on the lockboxes, funny, I have never ran into another Realtor in SD County who voted for the bulkier lockboxes. Jim, maybe you should call the FBI and have them look into the tampering of funds and see if GE is kicking Ray back some money for the business he has given them.