Will there be releases of other applications under the SS10 brand? For instance InRoads and Descartes.
Thanks for any information.
I'd be interested in an "InRoads SS2"-SS10. I'm sure I'm not alone...
MaryB
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The day is finally here for the end of the old licensing and I guess no one at Bentley was listening. Looks like if you are still using SS2 for projects (like we are) it will now start incurring an additional $25 fee per quarter with no way around it. It boggles my mind how out of touch Bentley seems to be with the user base by only updating InRoads SS4 products to SS10. I can't imagine many DOTs or consultants ever went to using SS4 over SS2.
But if the product has no SS10 replacement what then? Like Geowebpublisher.
I don't know about that program specifically, but the way I understand it, for now it will continue to work but will cost an additional $25 per quarter per machine. Eventually that will end too and from what I gather you will have to purchase some kind of node lock per machine to keep using the old software.
I'm still trying to understand why you would ever choose SS2 over SS4/10 so many bug fixes and tweaks why not just go back to VJ or XM. I except not wanting to move into CE but the last release of a build is the most stable and best polished.
The jump from InRoads SS2 to SS3 is where they changed to InRoads with OpenRoads technology so it's not a direct switch to go from SS2 to SS4. Current projects would have to be upgraded and it would require extra work to port over our workspaces which would be a waste time while we are in the process of building a workspace in OpenRoads Designer. Also our main DOT client has be using SS2 up until the beginning of this year where they are now switching to ORD due to the planned depreciation of the Select Server.
I'm all for going to ORD, but my experience with using it so far is it still has a lot of bugs and is far from stable for production. It also takes hundreds if not thousands of hours to build the workspace to do what we need. We've had someone that spent the last year doing almost nothing but building a new workspace for ORD and after starting to use it I'm finding that it still needs work.
If we use SS10 then we are not charged the additional fees. Is that right?
Correct although I don't know how long that will last since they are really pushing for everyone to go to CONNECT.
stuartw said:If we use SS10 then we are not charged the additional fees. Is that right?
Correct. Only maybe based on version number but as SS10 support is still active and doesn't use old licensing model then no fees. Some use SELECT only to have pool/network licensing so may not be interested to move to CONNECT version and it is a choice for which there is no reason to charge a fee if they use SS10 versions.