On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:14:11 +1000, Dave Gillingham
wrote:

Reka, out of curiosity:

Have you seen Wildcatt? How does Orchid Wiz compare with it for user interface,
range of information & presentation, comprehensiveness of content, updates &
recency? What source does it use? Where do you get it? How much? TIA


Both are based on RHS information and the AOS Awards Quarterly.
Orchid Wiz is very photo based.
Wildcatt is a text based program.
Orchid Wiz was born out of the frustration built when the AOS's own
program promising pix of award plants kept being stalled. There were
some issues with copywrites when it originally came on the market.
They seem to have been settled.

WildCatt does the tree chart of a plant's lineage. It will also do
the pie chart of the species that you see on Orchid Wiz's page.
It will research by generations the prodigy of any particular plant.
It lists only plants that have at sometime been awarded or are in the
background of awarded hybrids. It is has the full text of the AQ's
listing for all awards. It has hybridizer information on all the
plants.

Orchid Wiz has photos, but of examples of the hybrids or species. None
are the award photos from AOS. It has a more modern database engine.

E-AOS is the "Official Electronic Awards Quarterly" research program
of the AOS. It is not being updated as fast as it should be. It has
install issues due to worries about copywrite.


The advantage either Orchid Wiz or E-AOS should have is that they put
in all the changes in species as awarded and linked to the new names.
In Wildcatt Helga changed all the Oncidiums when the 'book' of
approved changes came out. But when species change - they do not link
back to the original name.

-- just my 2 cent view.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids