[WDSCI-L] BP says to wait?

["Michael Patton" <mpatton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin:

I hate to come off sounding like a know-it-all, and I'm sure your BP has a
reason for the recommendation they've made, but in my experience with the
various versions of WDSC, it can't be a valid reason.

Aaron mentioned some hiccups with the product at v5.1, as I recall, but it
is unbelievably more useful than its predecessor.  Given a choice of moving
back to 5.0 or ceasing development outside a green screen environment, I'd
have to head back to SEU and SDA.

v5.1 is much faster, has additional niceties in many areas, and can actually
run well on a machine with less than a terabyte of RAM.  If there's a way
for you to find out what's got your BP spooked, I'd highly recommend finding
out what it is before committing yourself to a year in hell with 5.0 while
your project's underway.  My sense is that they've just not gotten 'round to
using it themselves.

Rgds,

MP

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date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:28:35 +0000
from: Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSC 5.1 Delivery

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 17:45, Mike Tobey wrote:
> I ordered 5.1 from my BP on Oct 17 but have not received it yet.  Does
> anyone know how long it takes to receive the disks after they have
> been ordered?

I ordered it from our BP the same day as you. It arrived while I was on
holiday last week - so I'm not sure the exact date. It can be done
within a fortnight it seems.

Unfortunately I can't do anything with it as our managers want to stick
with 5.0 on the BP's recommendation. Given that we haven't actually
started on our main project - still training & finding our feet - it
would seem a good time to upgrade. The alternative would be during the
project (which I can't see happening) or afterwards, which will put it
well into next year :(

Good reasons for an earlier upgrade would be welcomed... As yet I've
only seen good reviews of it, which goes against what our BP is saying.

Regards, Martin
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