We think it would be better if support for those protocols came standard with Galaxy. In addition to telephone, BBS, and fax-based support, Visix maintains a site on the Internet for its customers. The performance of the resulting software is certainly satisfactory. Galaxy's control over and management of the underlying GUI is extensive. On a Macintosh, for instance, you can make your application appear to be running on X Windows or Presentation Manager.
Galaxy supplies a wealth of functionality.
Our only serious complaint is with Galaxy's limited database access and network-transport compatibility. It would have been easy to cut corners if a mouse control in the class hierarchy, for example, didn't layer itself correctly across the Windows and Mac platforms. But Visix went the extra mile to write the code that avoids such a compromise. The result is impressive. Following are 11 of the most important ones.