PreviousSaturday 22 October 2005, 11:52 PM
V9 great for developers, but not 2006
As a Web & application development company, our PCs are cleaned and reloaded with a fresh image every week at least -- sometimes more often so we know the next customer's solution will work on the set-up they use and need. V8 & V9 were great, worked well and handled all the regular re-installation with aplomb.
Enter 2006 with its activation feature, this means we pay £30 to upgrade and Ipswitch allows us to use the program twice before charging again, that's £15 a go. Problem? When you re-install in a development situation, XP, W2K etc. are fine with MSDN as every 10 times you get a new key from Microsoft and off you go again, Ipswitch, they allow you to install the program once, and then assume you will never rebuild. But if you do then you get one more try, that's it.
Therefore, for developers,they have made their product unseless unless you can justify to your customers the cost of the software which for us would mean twice a week for 30 people.
Not a winner, now we use another PGP FTP program, and, Ipswitch lose money because they got greedy. Speaking to other development companies, they are either not upgrading or using other suppliers too.
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