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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 25, 2009 at 08:39 PM
MAF, many thanks for your post. Indeed the concept looks more clear now. It also answers some of our questions from the original Noah thread: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/631/
I will now take a second view at Stratovista regarding the limitations identified then, which discouraged me from further using Noah.
By the way, I would note that what you pointed out regarding Stratovista being the premium version of Noah is not obvious from the website. I used Noah but the various changes and announcements (user forum taken down, then replaced by a blog that hasn’t been updated for quite a long time) suggested to me that the product would be abandoned in favour of v.2.0 (indeed this is what one usually expects when new versions are announced). I would probably have expected to have Noah and Noah Pro, Stratovista Lite and Stratovista.
Will Noah continue to be supported, i.e. potential bugs fixed, etc, or will such support only be invested in Stratovista?
Posted by -MAF-
Mar 26, 2009 at 01:26 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>MAF, many thanks for your post. Indeed the concept looks more clear now. It also
>answers some of our questions from the original Noah thread:
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/631/
>
>I will now take a second
>view at Stratovista regarding the limitations identified then, which discouraged
>me from further using Noah.
>
>By the way, I would note that what you pointed out
>regarding Stratovista being the premium version of Noah is not obvious from the
>website. I used Noah but the various changes and announcements (user forum taken
>down, then replaced by a blog that hasn’t been updated for quite a long time) suggested
>to me that the product would be abandoned in favour of v.2.0 (indeed this is what one
>usually expects when new versions are announced). I would probably have expected to
>have Noah and Noah Pro, Stratovista Lite and Stratovista.
>
>Will Noah continue to be
>supported, i.e. potential bugs fixed, etc, or will such support only be invested in
>Stratovista?
>
Hi Alex,
Your point about the website is well taken. We’re working on it. Regarding the blog,
we found ourselves responding directly to emails and sites like Outliner. It wasn’t much more
labor intensive and we think most of our users appreciated the more personal/direct access.
We will continue to make Noah available as a free download but all of our development
resources (and support resources) will be focused on supporting, expanding and refining StratoVista’s
features and capabilities.
Regarding “taking a second view” - by way of saying thank you for the time you and the other folks have
invested in this posting - if you’re interested we can arrange to provide you with a free reviewers
copy of StratoVista - Google Edition v1.0 and the other contributors a $20 discount. Contact me at
info@gen9.com and just say “Outliner Software sent me” and we’ll send you the discount code.
Kind Regards,
-MAF-
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 26, 2009 at 09:35 PM
-MAF- wrote:
>Regarding “taking a second view” - by way of saying thank you for the time you and the
>other folks have invested in this posting - if you’re interested we can arrange to
>provide you with a free reviewers copy of StratoVista - Google Edition v1.0 and the
>other contributors a $20 discount.
This is indeed most generous and kind of you; I for one am flattered.
Posted by Tom S.
Mar 26, 2009 at 09:55 PM
-MAF- wrote:
> if you’re interested we can arrange to
>provide you with a free reviewers
>copy of StratoVista - Google Edition v1.0
A quick question. We weren’t sure why the name includes the words “Google Edition”. Is there some special integration with the online Google tools that might be of interest?
Tom S.
Posted by -MAF-
Mar 27, 2009 at 02:24 AM
Tom S. wrote:
>
>
>-MAF- wrote:
>> if you’re interested we can arrange to
>>provide you with a free
>reviewers
>>copy of StratoVista - Google Edition v1.0
>
>A quick question. We weren’t
>sure why the name includes the words “Google Edition”. Is there some special
>integration with the online Google tools that might be of interest?
>
>Tom S.
Hi Tom,
Yes, StratoVista is designed to be to Google Web Services what Outlook is to Exchange Server. It can exchange email, appointments, contacts, documents, photos and other data with Google?s free Web Services Gmail, Google Calendar, Blogger, Google Docs and Picasa. Future versions of StratoVista will add interfaces to other important web services from Google as well as other vendors. We think this is a new way to look at the problem of providing a small enterprise with a very inexpensive, scalable, low maintenance client/server solution in lieu of Outlook/Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino - especially for Open Office shops. OO is a fantastic app, but it doesn’t have an email/ PIM capability. A feature comparison - StratoVista vs. Outlook vs. Lotus Notes - is provided at http://www.stratovista.com/Features.htm
So, you can use it as an independent personal information manager, as an Internet mail client and/or in conjunction with Google Web Services.
But there’s also some other very unique features - an example and one favorite is the the Email Download Controller (not found in Noah or anywhere else for that matter), which permits users to selectively downloads only those emails that meet certain criteria that they define. It leaves the rest of the emails on the mail server for future use or will delete them from the server if preferred.
So, let’s say you have years worth of emails - thousands - on your mail server that you just don’t seem to get around to deleting and/or you leave copies there for backup purposes (like most of us), and you hate Outlook’s archive feature (if you use Outlook). Download Controller eliminates archiving (it essentially uses your email account as one) and allows you to avoid downloading all of these emails. It solves the problem using filters that you set with a few clicks. You can set a time filter (i.e. any thing older then a year, month, week, day etc. is filtered out) size, or max number. Even cooler (sorry, I really like this feature) is that every time you classify an email - by selecting a sender’s email to create a Topic, or sub-folder - SV assumes that this sender is important to you and so it downloads and protects (from the auto-purge, which cleans up everything in your Inbox already downloaded when it’s sent date exceeds the date filter) everything from this sender.
The bottom line is that you can quickly use this feature to eliminate all the emails from everyone except from people you’ve selected - with the exception of maybe a day or a week of emails from everyone - in cases where you get an email from someone who is new and not already classified (if they’re important you create a Topic with them, if not they disappear in a day or two). I’m probably not doing this feature justice with this explanation - so I suggest you check it out in the user manual if you want more info, here - http://www.stratovista.com/Tutorial.htm#Email%20Download%20Controller.
Hope this answers your question and my apologies if it sounds like an advert.
Kind regards
-MAF-