Yeah, they haven’t gone “Full version” probably due to some license / Trade Mark crap or something like that.. no idea.

Point is though, you understood it was Beta, and with all Beta software, all bets are off. Why? its a prototype and you know this as a developer especially. It stops all bullshit remarks like “its sooo buggy” in its track as the end reply is “Dah, mofo, its BETA.. you know, BETA, VHS, CD, DVD, Holigram… see a fricken pattern emerging??” …

I gotta lay off the fizzy drinks.

I don’t think I ever downloaded and installed a program by them that wasn’t “beta”. Seriously, every release had 5.4.6.1beta.

At the moment, if you aren’t in the Macromedia Blog-World, and you load Central, it does look like a finished product. Of course, if you click on the “About Central” under the help menu, you see “Developer Release” tucked nicely in the far right.

NOT GoOOd enough.

I say this, as it gives fuel for monkeys like this writer, to sit back and publically cain the shit out of what is a good product concept. While we can cain him ONLINE in various pockets of the Internet (Blogs etc), the end public will look at the article as if this guy carries enough IT smarts to be taken at face value.

I think while stuffs being worked out with Central, it should be branded more as a “Beta” mode, as this will reduce a lot of peoples perception(s) as you can always hide behind the “oh well, thats in beta, we’ll fix that” and you will get more of a pro-active acceptance of situations like the above, than if you release it as is now with bugs/problems.

Its worked for a lot of projects, namely ICQ, its got bugs, and its annoying, but its still in “beta” so to speak, and a lot of people accept that…. JUST DON’T DRAG IT OUT for years/months….

The worst of all is that on that article as well as CNET one there is no place for anyone to leave a comment, or opinion.

However, as a Central proponent, I feel it is my responsibility to counter any mis-interpretation of the technology, and hopefully educate people on what is accurate as well as what is my subjective opinion, hopefully both positive.