It's taking far too long till you release the final version!

[Guest]

only the translation for Servant Salamander into other languages is missing before the final release!

Now I suspect Altap to release Servant Salamander 2.5 Final when Vista is available as Final!

It's taking far too long till you release the final version! You promised too much, so we are forced to order other software in big big quantities somewhere else.

EOM

[Jan Rysavy]

Please use appropriate (new) topic for your comments. Otherwise I will erase such posts. Thank you.

Splitted from http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=1449

[Guest]

RC2 of Servant Salamander 2.5 will expire 1st of May 2007 ?

Halleluja! How long will you further wait till the majority chooses a different commander?

Get 2.5 final out asap, you are losing customers day by day, don't you realize that?

Best regards,
Guest Nr. XYZ

[SvA]

Concerning Beta:
1. Servant Salamander is now a Release Candidate, which means the producer considers it feature compete and stable. Some vendors release their result of rapid prototyping as their beta and what I would call an alpha version as their release version. Not so Altap. What you get is rock solid, more stable than most release Software even in early beta stages.
2. With Servant Salamander, you buy a final version and get an improved version, which is at least just as stable as the release version for free.
3. So far I have heard of two reasons of why non-final stage could be a problem, both of which are related to some stubborn stickling of principles. If you are not affected of one of these, stop carping; if you are, know that Altap has noted these and your murmoring will hardly change their roadmap.

Concerning expiration:
1. This certainly cuts down considerably on workload for Altap's support and thus speeds up finalisation of the product.
2. You are not forced to update, just ignore it.
3. Compare to Windows itself. You are not forced to update monthly, but you are rightly considered careless and irresponsible if you don't.

[Peter]

..... after many Years of Testing an Testing and Testing - and now reading the new Beta expired May 2007 , we look to another Filecomander for Corporate Use.

Sorry ALTAP, we cannot wait for Years for a non Beta Status.
You have a wery good piece of Software, but you cannot 5? Years publishing only Betas with expiration..
We have more Personal Computers here in the chem. Industry without Internet Connection and Using Beta Software is not Corporate-like.

Best wishes for your future

Peter

P.S. sorry for my English, its not my nature Language

[Jan Rysavy]

Peter, If you will be interested, please contact me on my email. We can prepare special build for you so you can wait for final version 2.5 without annoying re-installs. I'm really sorry for final version 2.5 delay.

[Martin]

Peter, same here. I use 2.5 beta on my private machine and I announced Salamander 2.5 final in our company for November 2006 a month ago. But now we go with another product, I cannot install a beta version or a software with an expiration date on lots of PCs in our company. Salamander 2.0 is no alternative to the features of v2.5.

Sorry ALTAP, just another lost customer...

[Jan Rysavy]

I'm sorry, but we cannot offer you more than I offered because the final version doesn't exist now.

Good luck with another file manager.

[mcleaver]

I'm sorry, but we cannot offer you more than I offered because the final version doesn't exist now.

Good luck with another file manager.

This tread is indeed pointing out the obvious. Salamander has been beta for FAAAAR too long, I am now running Vista and can't install Salamander because I get an error: "Unable to spawn external program: requested operation requires elevation. Setup.exe."
What now?
Martin

[Jan Rysavy]

Now you should probably crate a new topic about this problem...