This issue of "The Unibase Technical Review" reaches more people than ever before. I personally want to welcome each reader who has managed to get this far into our Newsletter.

Technical Reflections Spew Forth

By now even the casual reader knows that The Unibase Technical Review (and whatever name the marketers put on it in the future) is for people in service organizations who wish to have some regular feedback on the issues and improvements in the Data Management Assistance Corporation’s products — currently Unibase by DMAC and Unibase Imaging.

Herb Teague Requested This Effort

About eight years ago Herb Teaque of ASI suggested that a great benefit for current and future users of the DMAC products would be to have a continuous pipeline to what the development group was accomplishing, studying and changing. Herb said from this newsletter, and other information, providing a "sort of a snapshot of our times," his company could better plan for the future. We at DMAC agreed to try and have had mostly good comments about this newsletter.

Virginia Read Helped Us Change

Virginia Read of Broad Data Systems helped modify this approach in early 1994 by asking that we report on projects almost completed (before Quality Assurance and in beta) to give a three month jump on the product pipeline.

Finally after eight years, the marketers and their consultants at DMAC agree that the newsletter serves a valid purpose-- but not too well. They say our products are the best kept secret in the industry. So in 1998 they will tinker with the way we present our products and this newsletter. Oh well.