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Jose Bonifacio
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Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:05 am Post subject:
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Good morning everyone,
It is strange but I have noticed that Bentley has been merging it
various product lines into smaller groups.. i.e. GeoOutlook,
Geographics, Geoexchange, Descartes, Reprographics --> V8 Geographics?
Our company was reviewing our upgrade options last week and we were
surprised that most of the products that we bought several years ago
were no longer available individually...it is better for us now
because we only have to buy 1 license (V8+Select EC) but my boss then
realised that maybe there really is not much difference between the 4
products that we bought individually before.
Somehow he felt that the company was duped into buying the 5 products
individually (some with Select!!!).
To make things worse, we were also not notified that the said products
were being delisted. No upgrade option to V8 even if part of
Select....
So after reviewing some of our other options based on purchased price,
my boss opted to go with IntelliCAD 4 (only $100+!!). We will use the
existing individual products until they drop dead from exhaustion...
This post is just to let other companies out there who are still
chained to the Bentley products to also review their options.
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domlanic
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Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject:
Re: Bentley's Product Line |
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Jose
Agree, generally; don't think Bentley deliberately set out to
disadvantage or upset their customers. However, an example of this was
the dropping of Modeler along with a promise that most of it would be
inorporated in a future release of Microstation. That was several
years ago & Modeler has not made it fully into Microstation yet;
meantime subscribers have made 4-5 Select payments....but that's how
it goes for most CAD vendors- look at the furore over Inventor
Professional!
Its often at this point that infatuation with one's favourite system
begins to pall & you start looking at alternatives; I did a training
course in SolidWorks which (almost) convinced me to buy it. 2 years
later along comes Alibre at 10% the cost of SW & lots of the same
functionality- then there's Rhino..........
How to choose- even if you could afford them all there's not enough
time to train in all; but a lot of folks are waking up to the
realisation that the old established mainstream CAD products are
ridiculously expensive, especially allowing for their outdated
interfaces & toolsets.
This is where the subscription model falls down; essentially you are
running the same 1980's car with facelifts & exorbitant maintenance
costs. Better to ditch it & buy a new model to benefit from the latest
technology?
bonnijose@yahoo.com (Jose Bonifacio) wrote in message news:<4efc3e66.0403021905.d3202eb@posting.google.com>...
| Quote: | Good morning everyone,
It is strange but I have noticed that Bentley has been merging it
various product lines into smaller groups.. i.e. GeoOutlook,
Geographics, Geoexchange, Descartes, Reprographics --> V8 Geographics?
Our company was reviewing our upgrade options last week and we were
surprised that most of the products that we bought several years ago
were no longer available individually...it is better for us now
because we only have to buy 1 license (V8+Select EC) but my boss then
realised that maybe there really is not much difference between the 4
products that we bought individually before.
Somehow he felt that the company was duped into buying the 5 products
individually (some with Select!!!).
To make things worse, we were also not notified that the said products
were being delisted. No upgrade option to V8 even if part of
Select....
So after reviewing some of our other options based on purchased price,
my boss opted to go with IntelliCAD 4 (only $100+!!). We will use the
existing individual products until they drop dead from exhaustion...
This post is just to let other companies out there who are still
chained to the Bentley products to also review their options. |
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Dr Marti
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Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:
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try this say on server - news.viecon.com >
bentley.microstation.v8.general
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