<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My 2 cents...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The purchase is a great idea. In all honesty (and with all the respect due to Scott and his great efforts),</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">MC needed this badly! I've suggested many times to Scott to include some of my improved APIs, make MC more</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">professional looking. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">First impression of MC is that it is not appealing and the lack of marketing doesn't help unless you read the whole site (which </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">is not the most navigable thing i've seen), and testing MC is not easy for starters. I dont see a java or C programmer jumping</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">bandwagon if they have tried Delphi or Metrowerks "professional GUIs"... The development budgets is surely not the same,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">but RR is on the right track!!!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">RR has definitely made lots of whistles and bells that make MC modern and I applaud that! I will welcome RR </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">as soon as I can (budget allocation depending naturally, and stability testing too). Last I saw RR it was version 1.0 </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">and it was a great first impression but the amount of bugs then just couldn't make it operable on our production servers. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">MC in this respect was not easy to start with but once the few bugs were tamed, it runs forever without a hitch.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> I hope RR is as good.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I downloaded the 2.0 version. Installed it (bug dialog already in the installer!!!) but it finished installing ok. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have lots of home scripts which I can't port to the home stack - not a good start - home is where the heart of my 50 monitoring applications is!!!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The GUI is not as nice as I first tought. The help window is very nice but also irritating when it changes size each time...</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Screen real-estate is now even more limited...</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">OK, I wont start with my new bug list but Im not sure Im happy... </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I also enjoyed making MC's every internal stack and properties 10X better which now</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">is going to be useless.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The RR script editor has the same bugs as MC's so I dont see an advantage at first hand...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I've heard that RR was also a bloated application - slower than MC. I dont see this at all using it.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Can anyone give us a difference list? </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">But there is a lot (if not too many) options left and right... Im sure lots of thinking went into the design </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">but the screen real-estate is far worse than MC - I guess this takes some getting used to.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">BTW, you can't search the help tutorials!!! In the Encyclopedia the pop-up menus dont work... ;((</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">my bug/petpeeve list is already at 16 items in just one hour... Not good...</font>
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