As a retired Chief Operating Officer of a software development firm, we deliverd both platforms on a regular 18 month cycle to a point that our user base never had this type of problem with us.
A firm of 80+ during my time, with 35 software engineers, our float of when the product would be delivered was 30 days. Often the only thing holding up shipment was waiting for packaging and manuals…Oh yes, i my day, been retired for 3.5 years, we wrote our own manuals…about 800-1200 pages depending on product level…product level in that we provided special tech fields of Engineering, Architecture, Landscape, theater lighting, and rendering.
As a publicly traded firm on Nasdaq, we could not, NOT communicate and be in business without taking a hit in the market.
I have tried to look back and guess at what they might be doing. If we had tried something like this it would have been to 1. Keep quite for a big rollout that no one was looking for…which is why I wa discussing the interface problem, 2. saying nothing because I had bad news to drop.
The almost yr delay tells me that they do not have thr tech. resources to handle the Mac side move from PPC to Intel back then and are trying to caught up. This makes the most business sense to me and would explain why no details…they just don’t know. If this is the case, lack of tech resources, then if and when a PPC product hits the streets…it may very well be the last.
For these reasons I don’t believe they are getting ready to surprise us. Not with a history of delays on the Mac side…and if they were, the marketing dept has dropped the ball.
I know that many of you are loyal, entrenched users, who wave the flag, but gentlemen, this is a business, you pay for a tool to do a job and when a better tool situation comes up you switch over…or go out of business.
Again I’m retired, staying up with the technology for fun…and do a little historical business on the side, so I can take it or leave it, but many of you do this to put food on your tables or have based this as part of your professional career.
Would be interesting to know just how many there are of us “Mac” people out there. They know, it it might just be why they appear to be forgetting us. Consider contacting each other as a group that can approach ZB as a united customer base. This problem is not going to go away, and just thinking that we’re almost there why bother, well, I will come back in a year when the new windows product comes out and start watching your new countdown.
Others will and have taken up the 3D sculpture gauntlet. I mentioned Modo and was told that its not really capable…but business wise, look at what they have created, their constant feature additions, the interface, the newest technologies, and their communications. At the pace of ZB you may not be looking over your shoulder too long before they have passed you by
and by the way, 20 people located around the world linked. There’s a modern tech staff.
I don’t get on here much, was excited to here that another of my application was almost ready…I remember their first product!, but as a businessmen wanted to get you sturred up and asking questions rather then panting…is it here yet.
Get yourself united. You either become a strong voice thay listen to, or find out that the Windows people are a stronger based, and therefore move on.
just some thoughts from one of them corporate guys.
