I believe that for the Microsoft products which use the Windows Installer (i.e. not pieces of Windows itself) the list of products *not* using the WiX toolset is shorter than the list of all the installs using it. WiX v2 added the big ticket items that got teams to move away from custom build systems (most teams built their own MSI build systems because the commercial solutions available do not scale to their needs).
Where can you see the WiX toolset today? SQL Server 2005 (I think that's the name of it) actually shipped using the unpublished WiX v1 (10,000 lines of VBScript, it was scary). 2007 Office switched from their custom system to the WiX toolset (thanks to a lot of effort from Derek). They shipped 2007 Office Beta 2 using a build of WiX v2 from a few months ago (it was stable for them, so they stayed there). Visual Studio is in the process of moving from their custom build system to WiX v3. SQL Server is moving from WiX v1 to WiX v3. As for smaller team, I believe that MSN Messenger has been using the WiX toolset for a couple years and the MSN Desktop Search guys used WiX v2 for their work. A lot of the datacenters in Microsoft (MSN Passport and Office Online for sure) use the WiX toolset to build the MSI packages that create their websites and all that. The list goes on and looks like it is going to get bigger in the next year/two years. WiX v2 really caught on internally (WiX v1 wasn't really good enough for general use) and is pretty much everywhere now. And that's just at Microsoft... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve baker Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] help convincing management to use wix hi all, i have been a long time wix user. my current employer uses wise to build msi installations. i have used wise and installshield extensively and have nothing good to say about either of them. part of my current job is to help rework our installer process. i have proposed wix. our install builder has also researched wix at my request and would like to switch. our managment does not want to use wix because it is not a "commercially supported application". i have talked about the mailing list and tremendous community support to no avail. what i would like at this point is ideas from anyone out there to help convince management to let us switch. names of large corporations that are using wix, products inside of microsoft that have built thier installations with wix, anything :) TIA :) ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
