I agree with you that Finale is definitely on the fasttrack to becoming the WordPerfect of notation packages. Let's just hope that some adventurous company like Novell (even though they didn't do anything to enhance WordPerfect's reputation) is willing to invest to keep it alive until a Corel can come along and try to resurrect it.
OR, let's just hope that the large numbers of serious Finale users who do investigate Sibelius come back.
Sibelius is bragging these days that even hard-core Finale corporations such as Hal Leonard are switching to Sibelius because of its on-line publishing capabilities and the Scorch plug-in for browsers.
Let's hope Finale has some creative thinking going on in the marketing and development departments to start to reclaim a market that should be theirs without a question.
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 21 Oct 2003 at 13:14, David H. Bailey wrote:
Well, they're hoping you won't ever use any other software again. Having bought last year's competitive upgrade (I sent in the pages from the table of contents), I can assure you that most hard-core Finale users will not enjoy using Sibelius very much. It has a couple of neat things, but when it comes to the nitty-gritty, Finale is a far more powerful and capable program.
But it's much easier for people to learn.
I started someone out on Finale this last summer, and the process of teaching them really showed me a lot about how much you have to know to get the basics. And I was teaching Simple Entry!
Of course Finale 2004 supposedly vastly improves Simple Entry, but I didn't even get to page layout, which is ridiculously difficult, even now. Just yesterday I I had to reprint pages because changing the page orientation does not automatically send the same information to the printer driver. It's been over 10 years since any other program I use required that kind of extra work just to get something done.
With missing the OS X bandwagon and still having that kind of ridiculously user-unfriendly behavior, I'm pretty sure that Finale is going down the tubes in the next 5 years, to become the WordPerfect of notation packages.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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