>Ah, CoreSuperdex is different than L1.  This level (as I remember) provides the
>basic b-tree features (I don't think you can concatenate or use grouped
>indexes), plus I believe you have the item truncation feature.  It was (is?)
>"free", with a shipping & handling cost of @$135 (which was the estimated cost
>of tapes, labor, shipping, etc.) because the DOJ doesn't like anyone "pricing"
>below cost of production for an extended length of time (you can do this
>temporarily without too much threat of an issue -- the old "loss leader").
> Since CoreSuperdex wasn't expected to be pulled anytime soon, it was priced to
>not be a loss leader.
>
>Assuming there are not drastic changes in IMAGE, and you are not paying
>support, it should continue to work for many more years.  If your paying
>support, I would suspect that Bradmark would still maintain it, since it truly
>is the "core" of Superdex.
>
>

I was always worried that something would break while using the core version
of Superdex.  So when we went to Express 3, I un-indexed my database and
b-treed it.  We were just using partial name lookup (ANDERS@) and b-trees
works just fine.  I don't have to worry about support now either.

Gary


Gary Jackson
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