On 7/9/05, Noel Stoutenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is also the issue of just how accurate Sibelius' claim of 10000 > users switching from Finale to Sibelius really is. I would expect that > it is true that 10000 users took advantage of the competitive upgrade; > however, this was painless, as C/N/M keeps track of their own user base > and ships out upgrades based upon its own records, there is no penalty > to sending in the distribution CD (especially if you send in an older > redundant version, or first burn a back-up copy).
Several years ago I sent in the required cd/title-page (whatever) and received a competitive upgrade to Sibelius. (I sent in the previous year's CD, so I didn't need to burn a copy or anything. In general, I don't burn copies except for FLOSS software, where it is the norm.) > I would also note that in the various forums in which I participate, > since the first of the year, I have seen by actual count, a dozen > different users who wrote to the lists, saying that they had originally > used Finale, had switched to Sibelius, been disenchanted, and had > switched back to using Finale because of Sibelius' shortcomings. I don't know that I became disenchanted (per se), but (because my composition projects are very irregular) several months passed after the upgrade to Sibelius. When I needed to "engrave" something, I needed to do it in a hurry, and Finale was what I knew best. Since that time, I have upgraded my Win/XP computer, and noticed the other day that I hadn't reinstalled Sibelius. (In the back of my mind I seem to recall that I had to phone Sibelius when I activated my upgrade version, and decided that I wasn't up to waiting on hold for awhile, then trying to convince them that I'm not a thief, that I really did upgrade my Duron 800 to an Athlon64, etc., etc. ... So my Sibelius CD remains on the shelf. I guess that means I'm not really a Sibelius convert ( ... yet?). --T _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
