[quote user="DavidG"] *snip* I don't want to take this out on support people because they've been dealt the same crappy hand as the customers. This was clearly a management decision to shove this out the door prematurely. Now you guys are on the front line trying to defend a really bad position because somebody in the rear pushed thru a bad plan and I'm telling my client "Sorry your building doesn't really need doors does it? Well maybe you can have them when someone at BSI gets their act together." Maybe they were right and I should have used AutoCAD like they wanted me to. [/quote] This first 64-bit version certainly has its share of defects, that's for sure. I know I was really surprised when after EAP5 there was suddenly a Commercial Release. Waiting until all the bugs were fixed wasn't an option (could have taken years to fix every little thing), but a Release Candidate stage would have given them more time to fix things are just not finished. I'm hoping a second CONNECT version with a few hundred fixes will be along shortly instead of having to wait for "the next major release". Quickly improving the reputation of "CONNECT" would be quite welcome. I must say that Support has been very helpful in reporting problems and getting feedback from development. It's always going to take too long to fix every single defect. If you jumped on the new things in CONNECT quickly for production work, I think you'll be in a pretty dark place for a while David. You should probably double back to V8i as fast as possible. Jumping on a completely rewritten version for production work was quite a gamble. The new things in CONNECT hold a lot of promise and could be really nice, they're just not quite as ready as they need to be to take on the world with just yet.
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