I did submit the suggestion that Macromedia incorporate all of its updates into one "intelligent Updater" much along the line of the one used by Symantec. This installer package will search for any Symantec software and apply the appropriate updates, virus definitions, and whatever. This packaging is a very convenient method for the end user to keep up with updates, security patches, hotfixes, as well as virus definitions, if needed. MM could even build in to this package confirmation of licensing and even automatically disable illegally installed software. No customer should be required to pay an additional subscription fee to conveniently receive product updates, unless they are new releases or marketed upgrades.
I also submitted the suggestion that has been discussed here, and that is to have a single updater page which will present the user with all of the updates for all MM products in one place. This would be much more convenient than searching out each product individually, suffering an interruption at work then missing one, and forgetting it when you return to the site. As an example the most recent "Intelligent Updater" I ran from Symantec, not only updated the virus definitions, but applied a patch to Norton Ghost, and updated Norton Systemworks as well. For a not-so-modest fee, I would be willing to create an InstallShield script file that would do all this and submit it for testing. All I would need to know is which version of IS you are using. :-) ===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean A Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 12:31 PM Subject: Re: Slightly OT: MM Updaters | | Good points... Please submit feedback and recommendations: | | http://www.macromedia.com/go/feedback | | Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture | Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. | tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 | aim/iChat: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com | An Architect's View -- http://www.macromedia.com/go/arch_blog | | Announcing Macromedia DevNet Subscriptions | Maximize your power with our new premium software subscription | Find out more: http://www.macromedia.com/go/devnetsubs | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
