Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Website Obitruary: ducktech.com

Duck Reporting from DuckTech.com

Like many QuickReport alternatives, it is similar: All Delphi report writers are expensive, full of issues and with bad support.

Quack, Quack
Duck Reports is a report-writer with a report-writer editor and bar-code support. Like many report-writers, it was built for Delphi 3, Delphi 4, and Delphi 5, using the BDE engine.

It was really good, except the price was US$250 per license and like many Delphi vendors, no support for Delphi 6, Delphi 7. The product had little or no help files (not surprised) and very little support.

What happened?
The product looks good but there were serious problems - the lack of future Delphi support, the lack of features (e.g., dot-matrix printer) and BDE independence laid it to doom.

Eventually, ducktech.com went off-line.

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