Ok, first of all: sincere apologies to gaijin2006 and clarence for the problems you've had contacting us. Gaijin -- you and I have already been in communication, and I am grateful for your ideas and suggestions.
Second: vaporware? No. Mongoose is a mature and highly functional web-based alternative to Reuters 3000Xtra that provides much of the same functionality, but within a browser. However, we have withdrawn it from the market. Why? Because Reuters reacted VERY aggressively to it and effectively blocked us from selling it by creating huge commercial barriers designed to prevent their customers from using it to look at Reuters data.
Nowadays we are doing well providing the same technology to the large banks (JPMorgan, Citi, Merrill, UBS, etc), as well as to some smaller data vendors, to enable them to deliver their own data to their customers.
If any of you would like to take a look at Mongoose, an online demo still exists and I'll be happy to arrange access if you contact me directly.
"Imahosbag"? Maybe we should do a little test marketing on that name before using it... Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Paul Caplin (CEO, Caplin Systems)
