Noel,
The Finale 2005 install CD, which contains both Mac and PC versions, contains only 241.4 MB of data.
And Richard was asking why Coda didn't offer the *option* of downloading upgrades, rather than having to pay (and wait) for shipping (and for international users, customs and brokerage fees). He never said anything about *requiring* upgrades to be downloaded.
If Coda offered downloadable upgrades, I expect most users would prefer that to waiting for the physical CD-ROM to arrive. And Coda could save on manufacturing the physical CDs (and printing the quick reference cards, etc). Sure, they would need to pay for extra bandwidth to support the downloads, but I suspect in the end it would be a win-win situation -- *especially* for international users.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
On 18 Apr 2005, at 6:45 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Richard wrote, in part asking:
That leads me to ask why Make Music doe not provide an upgrade path online where we could download the software. Or do they already provide that and I just could not find it on the site ?To which I would note that they do provide online downloads for maintenance releases (i.e., 2005a to 2005b). I suspect the main reason they do not provide on-line releases for major upgrades (2003 or 2004 to 2005) is because of the size of the downloads required. Whereas for the maintenance upgrades, the file sizes are on the order of 10 to 20 MB, for the full version, besides the full version of the software, the upgrade needs a new set of libraries (including plug-ins), template files, user manual, and Adobe acrobat reader. Assuming the MAC and WIN versions are roughly the same size, since they both fit on a CD-ROM, let's assume they are 350 MB each. Even on high-speed access, this is probably a matter of hours, and for those of us who are sufficiently comfortable with dialup that we either have chosen not to, or have not chosen to, upgrade to high speed, well, in my case (and the case of anyone else using a 56 kbit download speed) I estimate the download time required would be on the order of seventy hours for the full download. Now, if there are 10,000 users of Finale using dial-up, that's 700,000 hours needed for the download. Since there are 8760 hours in a year, that's about 90 modem-years worth of download time required, and you still haven't accounted for the 37 users of Finale who still don't have internet access at any speed.
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