upgrade to 09
upgrade to 09
(OP)
The powers that be are considering not continuing our service packs for a few years. We have around 20 seats.
I have strongly suggested that we upgrade to SW 09 and SP1 before we let are subscription run out in the end of Nov.
I'm wondering if anyone has any articles on the benefits of 09. I know its faster and a better release from what I've read here but I need to prove that to management.
They don't care if we upgrade as long as I can prove 09 sp1 is a stable release and more beneficial/productive than staying where we are currently at.
Thanks for any help.
I have strongly suggested that we upgrade to SW 09 and SP1 before we let are subscription run out in the end of Nov.
I'm wondering if anyone has any articles on the benefits of 09. I know its faster and a better release from what I've read here but I need to prove that to management.
They don't care if we upgrade as long as I can prove 09 sp1 is a stable release and more beneficial/productive than staying where we are currently at.
Thanks for any help.
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 X64 SP 3.1
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0






RE: upgrade to 09
Only by doing a thorough in-house testing with your products, on your computers, will you be assured of its stability. What works for one does not necessarily work for another.
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Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
RE: upgrade to 09
If you have the '09 discs in hand, you can upgrade to sp0 at any point in the future. You can even just install it on one machine to do a comparison. As far as sp1 goes, like the Limey said, who knows when that will come out and in what condition it will be in.
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: upgrade to 09
RE: upgrade to 09
"...and the type of prescription medications that they are on"
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
RE: upgrade to 09
Yes I have already suggested that we install 09 on a spare machine which has our whole library and test. Our other division is testing on there end also.
I was just looking for data/articles backing up my knowledge that SW 09 is "bigger faster stronger". To support my insisting we ugrade to 09 before our subscription runs out. Baring our testing doesn't turn up any negatives.
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 X64 SP 3.1
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0
RE: upgrade to 09
rfus
RE: upgrade to 09
Im sure that part of it is that they make more money off the maint contracts.
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 X64 SP 3.1
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0
RE: upgrade to 09
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: upgrade to 09
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
www.axiscadsolutions.com
www.robrodriguez.com
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/rob_rodriguez/
Eastern Region SWUGN Representative www.swugn.org www.nvtswug.com
SW 2007 SP 2.0
RE: upgrade to 09
We are strongly considering moving to SpaceClaim.
Ed Danzer
www.danzcoinc.com
www.dehyds.com
RE: upgrade to 09
On my home and work machine (XP x32), uninstalling SW2008 and installing SW2009 (from the DVD) took about 1.5 hrs. Deleting the old video driver and installing the new took about 15 minutes. No big deal!
What were your SPRs concerning?
RE: upgrade to 09
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: upgrade to 09
We have our 2009 DVD's and our plan is to stop subscriptions in May of 2009. How does one go about getting service packages out of our VAR even if we are not current on the subs?
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP5.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600
RE: upgrade to 09
Unless it's a critical fix, you're only entitled to the SP's available up to termination of your maintenance. This has been a point of contention with users for a while. If you can prove that a later SP will fix issues you're having, you'll be able to get it otherwise you're SOL in most cases.
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
RE: upgrade to 09
If you are planning to stop sub's in May of 2009 we will all be thinking about SW2010. SW2009 will be at about SP3 or SP4. I think you will be fine if you leave SW at about SP3 or SP4 of any release.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW2008 SP4.0, Windows Vista SP1
IBM ThinkPad T61p, T7800, FX570M, 4 gigs of RAM
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com