I've been riding the fence for a long time. I still can't decide. Its not a cut and dried issue. This may sound silly, but I just can't get around Sibelius' insistence on showing a full page layout with margins (even with the new panarama view). Finale's scroll view is much better. Sounds like a sily differentiator, but that's just me. They both have bugs. I sure hear a lot of complaining for a long time about certain bugs in Finale that apparantly are commonly experienced and after years, MM has not addressed them.
I work for a software company, and we address major bugs like that IMMEDIATELY. As a software engineer, I can't even stand the thought that something I did may have a bug. When I find out there is a bug in my stuff, I will stay up until midnight to deliver a fix, even if my boss doesn't write it into the schedule. But that's just me. Its troubling to me that MM has not addressed bugs which people on the forums have been SHOUTING about for years, including people like Robert Patterson. You would think they would listen to him. The cross grade to Sib cost is $199, BTW. Not a bad price, but it is double the price of upgrading to Fin08, and you will have to learn a new program, not to mention your existing Fin scores will not be compatible with it. So think long and hard about it. Sib has bugs too, don't be fooled into thinking otherwise. > -----Original Message----- > And what if they end up making a dent in their own sales? > With more users > switching to Sibelius? I must confess that I'm very tempted > to put my 100 > bucks towards a cross-grade (how much does it cost?). Not > only they won't > fix the bugs, they won't even acknowledge them, and that > really gets very > tiring. > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
