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Bill Cunnien
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Could anyone suggest a good document manager that would neatly integrate with my StrataFrame application?  Or, perhaps someone could suggest a good way of handling disparate documents from users (faxes, pdfs, spreadsheets, etc.) that I want to persist with various master records.

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Bill

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Trent Taylor
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My two cents here, you are far better off going with Accusoft or Pegasus.  I had a conversation with the president of Pegasus a number of years ago when we were looking for some of these components and he was a very honorable person with a lot of integrity.  I also liked their products but at the time they were not full speed on .NET and we were requiring run-time royalty free which directed me elsewhere.  We will be moving off of Atalasoft the first chance we get and moving over that direction more than likely.

My major gripe with Atalasoft is their licensing.  I was the only developer using their product and created an assembly that our main application references.  On their 3.0 version, there were too many memory leaks and issues that we could never release the product, but the licensing was as said on their website (they changed their website after a number of converstaions with me).  So we had to wait and upgrade to their 4.0 version which was better on the memory leak side and cross-thread issues, so we moved ahead, fixed our product and were at this point "pregnant" with their product.  Due to other issues within their code, we had to upgrade to 5.0....this is where they hit us hard.  Through this process, they changed their licensing.  We had just finished the product using their tools and they changed the licensing to require any project that even references the assembly which contains a reference to their assembly require a developer license even though that developer doesn't even have Atalasoft loaded on their machine (it would prevent compilation).  They hit us for another $4000 just so we could compile.  So I would not recommend going this direction.

But again, that is just my two cents Smile

Oh, did I mention that I had even helped them with their Microsoft Partner points, given them some ideas to prevent developers from being beat up on their licensing, and even retracted true (but hard to hear) statements on other forums where I had commented on their product just trying to build a relationship with them....and then they nailed us as soon as they had what they needed!  These people are not on my Christmas card list.

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