Perhaps, given the tardiness in making Finale fully OSX compliant, it is the Mac market which is the drag these days.
I'm sure! I know I skipped the 2003 upgrade for that very reason. The only reason we upgraded at my institution last year was that we converted to a site license, added a few seats, and got the upgrade out of the deal. We have about a 60/40 split Windows to Mac, and we're definitely buying the 2004 upgrade because Finale is the last thing keeping us from going to X completely. And of course, I will make the upgrade myself.
My sense is that many Mac users held off this last time, and will make up for it with 2004. I would be surprised if any mac users don't do this upgrade. Of course, there's no telling how many jumped ship over the whole thing.
Tim
Well, every situation is probably different. In our case, (1) all university students are required to have computers meeting certain minimum standards and a basic, useful suite of software, and (2) the music and art departments require that they be Macs (and Music pushes very hard recommending notebooks so they will come to class with the students). We were all-Finale from about 1998, when new Freshmen were required to have Finale and we started to phase out Mosaic.
Fast forward to last summer. Since Macs were required, all our incoming Freshmen were going to have OS X. Since Finale dropped the ball on this, we had to make a decision, fast, and the decision was to require last year's Freshmen to have Sibelius. That means that Finale is now being phased out. Our hand was forced by Coda's decision to wait on OS X compatibility, but we are NOT going to go back to Finale for the foreseeable future. They missed their window of opportunity big time.
John
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