Wildfire 4, for those who've been wondering

The tentative WF4 ship date:
http://www.ptc.com/cs/product_calendar/PTC_Product_Calendar.htm#RANGE!B173

For those who don't have an account, it's 14 March '08.

 

Umm, BTW, what is F000? the fubar version? It's not the official production
release which begins with Mxxx.

David Janes

 

Thanks for setting me straight; good insider stuff and a basically sensible
coding scheme for releases.

David Janes

 

It means you're a Foo' if you use it.

 

It means you're a Foo' if you use it.

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Hey, if ya got maintenance, start early, upgrade often and frag PTC with bug
reports. (Alternate strategy: wait a year).

David Janes

 

I "admin" about 6 seats. I downloaded and burned the WF4 CDs onto one
DVD (which works great BTW) and loaded it on my computer and gave the
DVD to a computer-capable coworker who is the Mechanica guru.

The agreement was we'd test it for a few weeks then roll it out to the
others. We've done this before, and since we don't tend to get too wild
in complexity we've been a very early production adopter with new revs.

Apparently today said co-worker's co-worker borrowed the DVD and
received no warning that we're in beta. For a full week he's been using
WF4 on his project files, and of course those files cannot be
read/edited by anyone else. The good news is he works Pro/E pretty hard
and has had no problems.

So it looks like we'll go live on F000 starting next week sometime <gasp!>

Dave

 

Good point! This is a more common experience since the early years of this
decade when PTC instituted more stringent beta testing and code debugging.
We go weeks without a crash on Dells running XP Pro. Plus, PTC has
lengthened their releasing cycle time, instead of racing to market with
half-baked product. The difference is quite noticeable to people who
remember the "stable, reliable" Unix days which crashed only once a day. Now
the challenge is even greater as networks try to integrate Pro/e, Windchill
PDMLink, a Java app, IE Browser, email notification and several data and app
servers, all playing nice together. In all of this, Pro/e is the minor
headache.

David Janes

 

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Frag? Don't you mean carpet bomb?

Good strategy either way though.

Bill

 

Funny! I'm up to pulling the pin and tossing a grenade now and then, but one
guy can do only so much. Collectively, corporatively, it probably amounts to
a massive assault when serious bugs are encountered and LOTS of people
respond. Something to think about as you consider filing a bug report or
enhancement request: they're sensitive to the stats and pay attention to the
numbers piling up; people lose jobs when the good numbers stay flat or drop
and the bad numbers rise.

David Janes

 

Maybe we could all agree in future to file reports at the same time?