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Mike Prestwood is a drummer, an author, and creator of the PrestwoodBoards online community. He is the President & CEO of Prestwood IT Solutions. Prestwood IT provides Coding, Website, and Computer Tech services. Mike has authored 6 computer books and over 1,200 articles. As a drummer, he maintains play-drums.com and has authored 3 drum books. If you have a project you wish to discuss with Mike, you can send him a private message through his PrestwoodBoards home page or call him 9AM to 4PM PST at 916-726-5675 x205.

I do like my jazz and blues!

Wes Peterson is a Senior Programmer Analyst with Prestwood IT Solutions where he develops custom Windows software and custom websites using .Net and Delphi. When Wes is not coding for clients, he participates in this online community. Prior to his 10-year love-affair with Delphi, he worked with several other tools and databases. Currently he specializes in VS.Net using C# and VB.Net. To Wes, the .NET revolution is as exciting as the birth of Delphi.

Mr. Suttle is the President of Antler Software Technologies and is one of the leading authorities on relational data bases in the mid-west. He has been working with Paradox since version 1.0 for DOS (circa 1987).

Carol worked for Prestwood Software from 2000 through 2005 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Steve Caple I first saw Paradox in 1985 when a guy named Rick Albers came to demo Ansa's new 1.1 release to the Sacramento PC Users Group. The feeling was like going from WordStar to WordPerfect 3.0, a sense of freedom and power.

A long time dBase user had an evaluation copy he let me use for a few weeks.  Going from dBase to Paradox was like finding yourself walking WITHOUT your shoe laces tied together.  I was hooked; within a week I wrote my first useful Paradox DOS program.  It took a few evenings to put together a script to  generate a Basic Bulk Mail sort,  using a series of Paradox queries against a bicycle club Century ride mailing list.  It then used PAL to send text to the printer, printing it out in 5 digit Zip, three digit Zip, and miscellaneous by state groups, including group header labels and spacers on one-across stock  -  just tear it apart at the headers and give it to the mailing volunteers, and a job that used to take 20 people 4 or 5 hours could be done by 5 or 6 in a single hour.  

Later, Paradox for Windows version 5 added many needed structural and indexing and linking features, and as hardware caught up with the needs of a GUI environment it became a powerful database for small companies and divisions or branches within large corporations.  Despite some years of no real changes it remains one of the best products for that purpose.

Kim Berry is an experienced coder currently specializing in VS.Net C# coding of WinForm and WebForm applications. Kim currently works part time for Prestwood IT Solutions and participates in this online community when time allows. Kim worked fulltime at Prestwood Software for four years and is still available for part time evenings and weekends work. He was one of the main Prestwood developers developing ASPSuite and has coded in many languages including C, Visual Basic, Delphi, and Visual Studio.Net.