Re: Jaws v10
- From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:41:51 -0400
It's no rumor who owns them but the rest of this is pure speculation at
best.
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kamal Haffar" <haffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws v10
Not sure this is helpful, particularly it sounds more like
speculation to me rather than being a fact. I've always thought FS is
doing their best as a business to produce quality product and provide
good service in a very challenging and small market.
At 05:06 PM 23/08/2008, you wrote:
>Jumping to a whole new version of JAWS is most likely a marketing
>ploy by FS to justify the cost of extending one's SMA. After all,
>if they released these changes as version 9.1, users would be less
>inclined to shell out the extra bucks for the upgrade. Nobody seems
>to know who really owns FS, but there are rumors floating around
>that it is actually owned by an investment group based inn Dubai,
>United Arab Emirs which may be pressuring management in this country
>to release new versions of JAWS on a regular cycle.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Kamal Haffar" <haffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:16 PM
>Subject: Jaws v10
>
>
>>Hi all: I am surprised that FS is releasing this version is v10, as
>>the way I see it, the changes are nice and very useful but in my
>>opinion not significant enough to jump to a whole new version. I
>>recall in many previous versions FS has included more break
>>throughs and features. I am not trying to compare products here by
>>any means, but I want to use the example of GwMicro upgrade path
>>from Window Eyes 6.1 to 7.0 where the upgrade has introduced a
>>significant break through for their product. If I did not have an
>>SMA already, I would have probably waited to another version before
>>I pay to upgrade from v9.0 to v10.00. I don't mean this as a
>>negative criticism but rather as a feedback from a long time euser
>>of Jaws, in fact my serial number is a four digit one.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>kamalThis is meant as a positive criticiswiated
>>
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