For the record I never said that they should ONLY distribute soft copies. The practice of offering software upgrades via the internet is not new; it has been around for years.
With all due respect Noel, if you hadn't meant to "slam" me then why didn't you just say that it might be due to the size of the files and average user bandwidth not supporting it as a viable business option ? Instead there's a plethora of pejorative language used to make your point. Several times over !!! I am very fortunate to have a great day job and still get to perform and work with top "A" call players in LA and OC. As a Database Administrator there are many software companies that offer internet access to upgrades as an option and there are some that REQUIRE it. They don't offer the option of hard copies of anything, including manuals (they are available online PDF). The sad truth is that things change and if companies refuse to keep up with technology, then some smart and very young entrepreneur is going to come along and blow them out of the water. 12 years ago the idea of buying recordings on the internet was laughed at. Today I can download, legally, any song for 99 cents including the album art and liner notes. 12 years ago, only a handful of users had machines with RW drives. Not only that, but I can get PDF copies of the accompanying sheet music on some sites. By the way, how is Alpheus and Pacific music papers doing these days ? BY your logic they should be thriving, because who in their right mind is going to spend money for a computer when it's cheaper to write manuscript by hand? High Speed internet access is getting cheaper and cheaper. When Internet2 (roughly 10x's as fast) comes of age, High Speed will be cheaper than dial up today. The times they are a' changin' (Bob Dylan) It will happen, and neither you nor I can stop it. Might as well try to stay on top. I suspect that Make Music must already be considering this, at least enough to make sure Sibelius doesn't get part of their market share out of lack of forward thinking. But that's just my opinion Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noel Stoutenburg Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 6:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] 2005 to 2003a Darcy wrote: > ... Richard was asking why Coda didn't offer the *option* of > downloading upgrades,... He never said anything about *requiring* > upgrades to be downloaded. I understood that Richard was asking about the "option", as opposed to the requrement. > The Finale 2005 install CD, which contains both Mac and PC versions, > contains only 241.4 MB of data. Got it; so the download time on a 56k dialup, based upon the amount of time it took to download the most recent update to 2k5, will be about 23 hours, instead of the 70 I originally estimated. > And Coda could save on manufacturing the physical CDs (and printing > the quick reference cards, etc). I can't say for certain without more information as to the number of units sold per upgrade, and details about MakeMusic!'s contracts with its vendors, but since MakeMusic! is still going to have to provide CD-ROMs for people who do not have an internet connection, and those (such as some users overseas), who pay for internet connections determined in some manner by the amout of connection time who prefer to have the software delivered in that manner, and given that that higher volume runs often incur lower unit costs, it is quite possible, in my opinion, that there may not be a significant savings in manufacturing costs. ns _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
