[noteworthy_purchasers] NoteWorthy for OS X enters Beta

From: IntelliGents Sales <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: noteworthy_purchasers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:17:20 -0400
Greetings NoteWorthy Purchaser.
One of the questions we get asked most frequently is, "When will 
there be a release of NoteWorthy for OS X?"  We are pleased to 
announce that NoteWorthy 2 for OS X has now entered beta testing, and 
we would like to invite you to try out this software as one of our 
beta testers.

What would you do as a beta tester?

1.  Go to our website, at http://www.intelli-gents.com/beta.htm to 
read about the beta program and sign up to be a beta tester.  (There 
is a form for this at the website.)

2.  If you are accepted as a beta tester, you will receive a URL to 
download the program and a password to unlock the .sit file.  No 
special installation is necessary for the beta.

3.  If you are a current NoteWorthy user, MAKE A COPY of your dataset 
to use with the beta, as it will change the architecture of the 
datafile and it will not be backwards compatible.

4.  Try out the program.

5.  Report to us any problems.

You can opt out of beta testing at any time, though we would 
appreciate feedback on any reasons you may have for deciding you do 
not wish to continue using the program, as this kind of feedback is 
precisely what might help us make the product more usable in the 
future.


What's this "Version 2"?

We are able to make NoteWorthy available now for OS X because the 
underlying database engine is now available in OS X-compatible form. 
The new engine does, however, make changes in the data structure, and 
so we decided that this should be treated as a major update, as 
datasets created with or imported into the new version will not be 
backwards-compatible with v1.  (So if you try it out using your old 
dataset, make sure you make a COPY of it in case you still want to 
use v1 with it!)

Versions of NoteWorthy for Mac OS and Win will also be issued with 
compatible structure under the v2 label.  However, there is no new 
functionality to the v2 releases.  (Except for the fact that the 
changes to the database engine solved the annoying problem with 
Choose Keywords producing only a partial list of keywords.)  Current 
users will be able to request free upgrades for v2 versions of 
NoteWorthy for the platform they already have licenses for.  (E.g., 
if you ahve v1 for Windows, you will be able to get a license for v2 
for Windows at no charge.)


Ways of getting NoteWorthy free (to you the academic user)

Please note that NoteWorthy is available for site licensing to your 
institution, usually at a dramatically reduced cost-per-user.  We 
also have a promotional deal whereby institutions of higher learning 
can put NoteWorthy on all public lab computers for free.  For 
details, see the PROMOTIONS section of our website at 
http://www.intelli-gents.com.  If you think your institution would 
benefit from one of these opportunities, please pass on this 
information to your information technology contacts.


We appreciate your patronage, and hope you will continue to use our product.



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