1) Stability ( I write a lot in Java using four different developer tools depending on the application I'm writing and the team I'm writing it with. None of them has stability issues, and only one has memory handling issues, requiring it to be restarted once every 10 days or so ). RB seems to have a lot less of it recently.
I've been using only the Windows version for a few months, and just updated my Mac license. I've got some serious work to do in some cross platform projects, and I prefer being able to edit on the same machine to remote debugging, as cool as remote debugging is. Any way, I hate to say it, but RB2006r4 for Windows seems a lot faster and more stable than the Mac version. Admittedly I'm on a G5, not a Core Duo, but a G5 is nothing to sneeze at. I seem to be getting a lot of "Unable to save -50" reports even though it appears all changes were, in fact, saved. (Close and reopen the project and the changes are there.) And I've had r4 go down 3 times in as many hours today for reasons I do not know. I don't recall the last time r4 crashed on my PC. It makes me a bit nervous and even though I prefer to edit/debug on the same machine, I think I will be building the final binaries from the PC.
2) Updates ( back in the 4/5.* days, you bought a license, and you would get updates for that license while there where any to be had. That ment that if a serious flaw was detected in f.ex. 5.5.1 RealSoftware would come out with 5.5.2 which fixed the flaw. Now, if you "buy in" at rb2006/1 and it's bugged, you get updates as long as your subscription is valid, but if all the updates happen to be bugged and your subscription ends, you basically have a broken product. )
That can happen with the traditional model to. I actually like the subscription model. BUT...I really, really, really wish that at least one of the updates each year would be dedicated to NOTHING but bug fixes and stability. Daniel L. Taylor Taylor Design Computer Consulting & Software Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylor-design.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
