Good point Keith. It would then eliminate what happened at one of my previous positions where BD never sent us the upgrades until we had a problem with the software. Then, they were surprised at the version I had. If there was an update link on their website, that would not happen. Randy Fischer TherImmune Research Corporation 9700 Great Seneca Hwy Rockville, MD 20850 (240) 453-6256 RFischer@therimmune.com > ---------- > From: Keith Bahjat > Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2000 10:49 AM > To: Cytometry Mailing List > Subject: Cytometry Companies and the Internet > > Which raises an interesting point we were discussing earlier this > week. As the software that controls our cytometers, like Cellquest and > EXPO, require hardware dongles, and thus are VERY secure, why do the > companies still make us jump through hoops to get updated copies?? > They could post the update on a web site, and save the cost of having > those 5000 CD's burnt every time you upgrade to version X.X.1. The > WHOLE CD with all of BD's sample files and documentation on it is > still only 40 Mb! That's not even a 7 minute download at only > 100K/sec. > > Hope someone out there is listening. I think we've all got enough > useless AOL, Compuserve, and Earthlink CD's laying around. We don't > need CD's from cytometry companies on top of that. Post it on a web > site.......PLEASE! > > kb > > Keith Bahjat > kbahjat@ufl.edu > > > > on 4/7/00 4:28 PM, Joanne Thomas at thomas@tritechinc.com wrote: > > > > Hi All! > We have been trying to purchase the new version of CellQuest > which is supposed to address the OS 9 issues and have been told that > it is on back order for some time now. Has anyone else had a problem > getting version 3.3??? > > Joanne Thomas, M.S. > Director of Operations > TRITECH Field Engineering > 2014 Renard Court, Suite I > Annapolis, MD 21401 > 1-800-886-7004 (USA) > 1-410-266-1522 > 410-266-0935 (FAX) > thomas@tritechinc.com > > > > >
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